Abuse, kicks to groin – Campbell a model of temper tantrums over lost airline luggage

FOR the world's favourite airline, she was their least favourite customer.

Naomi Campbell, supermodel and serial disturber of the peace, was yesterday sentenced to 200 hours' community service for responding to a case of lost luggage on a British Airways flight with hysterical threats, violent kicks, racist accusations and language that would make Gordon Ramsay blush.

Campbell, whose previous encounters with the law involved beating her assistant with a bejewelled mobile phone, pled guilty at Uxbridge Magistrates' Court in London to kicking and spitting on police officers who were forced to drag her from the first class deck of a flight to Los Angeles after a ruckus when she was told that a piece of her luggage had not been loaded.

At one point the model demanded that the captain personally get off the plane to find her bag.

During the argument she shouted at Captain Mark Sutherland: "You are a racist, you would not be doing this if I was white." When police were called, she yelled at them: "It's because I'm a black woman, you are all racist, I'm going to sue you, I'm going to f*** you."

She had earlier made a call on her mobile phone and demanded: "They have lost my f***ing bag, get me another flight, get hold of the press, get my lawyer."

Yesterday the model, wearing a black Alexander McQueen outfit, stood in the dock to give her name and date of birth and admit two charges of assaulting police officers John Eastick and Charles Campling, and using threatening and insulting words and behaviour to the captain and the public.

The court was told that Campbell had boarded in a friendly mood but grew angry when she found out that a bag had gone missing. The captain came to apologise, but the model responded by telling him: "I can't believe you have lost my f***ing bags. Bring me my f***ing bags now." She told him to get off the plane, find her bag and show it to her personally.

The prosecutor, Melanie Parrish said: "The captain explained that was not going to happen." Campbell then screamed: "You are not leaving till you find my f***ing bag," and accused him of being a racist. She began to cry and said she was contracted to wear a particular Yves St Laurent outfit on a US chat show and it was in the missing bag.

The police were called and asked her to leave the aircraft. Ms Parrish said: "But Campbell screamed: "You can't f***ing touch me, my cousin is Scotland Yard." When PC Eastick took her arm she went "berserk", throwing her mobile phone, which struck him on the arm. When PC Campling went to assist, Campbell "drew her right leg back and thrust it forward, striking him in the upper thigh uncomfortably close to his groin", Miss Parrish said.

She was finally taken off the flight and charged at a nearby police station.

Campbell's temper have caused her trouble in the past. Last year she was given a community service sentence and ordered to attend anger management classes as punishment for hitting a maid on the head with a mobile phone.

Yesterday Simon Nicholls, defending, explained that for the model to lose her luggage was a serious matter and not at all comparable to a holidaymaker "going without his shorts and flip-flops". He said she offered her apologies to the police but added: "I can't say she is quite so sorry towards BA."

Last night Alan Edwards, a spokesman for Ms Campbell said that she was "very, very relieved it is over" and that she would cope well with community service.

Fame, fashion, flying and the other F-word

"They have lost my f****** bags, get me another flight, get the press, get me my lawyer."

"I can't believe you have lost my f****** bag. Bring me my f****** bags now."

"How dare you tell me what my options are? You are not leaving until you find my f****** bags."

"You can't arrest me, my cousin is in Scotland Yard."

"It's because I am a black woman, you are all racist, I am going to sue you, I'm going to f*** you."

"You bitch, I want my luggage – it's because I'm black and famous."

"I am going to screw you, like a motherf*****."

"F*** you, f*** you, Captain."

"F*** off, I have paid 5,000 for this. I have a right to be on this plane."

And even the press pack turns nasty as journalists clash

MOMENTS before Naomi Campbell admitted her airport outburst in court, another battle broke out among members of the press trying to get the story, left.

Kay Burley, a Sky News presenter, was said to have a suspected broken cheekbone after an altercation with a photographer, thought to be Kirsty Wrigglesworth, who was covering the event for the Associated Press.

Some onlookers said the 46-year-old presenter looked "aggressive and terrifying" as she lashed out and was captured on film clutching the photographer around the neck.

After the incident, Burley apologised and said she lashed out as a natural reaction to being hit in the face. She added: "I was hit in the face with a camera. I just put my hands up. If I did anything else, I apologise."