A BRITISH vacationer has been arrested on suspicion of sexually assaulting an air steward on a flight from Newcastle to Majorca.

He was held after allegedly touching the cabin crew member’s backside and nipples “in a lewd way” throughout the flight to Palma.

He is claimed to have gotten up from his seat and approached the flight attendant in an “affectionate way” before touching him up.

Other passengers helped restrain him till the airplane landed in Majorca.

Police have been ready for the person, believed to be aged round 40, and took him away in handcuffs after radioing for reinforcements after he allegedly turned aggressive in the direction of the primary officers to reach.

The detainee, who was carrying a white pair of shorts and a T-shirt in addition to matching white sandals with black socks when he was arrested, has not been named.

The weird incident occurred yesterday and the suspect was taken to courtroom within the Majorcan capital in the present day for a listening to which passed off behind closed doorways.

Well-placed sources mentioned the UK nationwide was aged 43.

Respected native newspaper Ultima Hora reported he initially instructed the investigating choose he had wished to play a joke on the air steward however subsequently supplied conflicting variations of why he had acted the best way he had which have been “incoherent.”

He was launched on bail pending an ongoing investigation.

It was not instantly clear in the present day if he has been banned from leaving Majorca and had his passport taken away or is free to go away the island whereas he continues to be probed on suspicion of sexual assault and resisting arrest.

The airline working the flight has not been named.

Last month a British holidaymaker was arrested on suspicion of sexually assaulting an air stewardess before spitting on her boss on a Jet2 flight from Manchester to Ibiza.

The 42-year-old was held by police after reaching the island.

Jet2 confirmed after the arrest it had banned him from flying with them.

As nicely as prosecution the vacationer was additionally warned he confronted a heavy nice.

Overnight it emerged 4 males on an easyJet airplane from Manchester to Tenerife had been hauled off an plane yesterday after it needed to be diverted to Lanzarote.

Spanish air visitors controllers mentioned the reroute occurred due to violent passengers on board.

And in one other incident yesterday two British girls described as “drunk” have been met by police round 1.30pm as a second easyJet airplane coming from Luton landed in Fuerteventura.

Local reviews mentioned that they had been recognized by cops after being accused of an air security breach.

A spokesman for the Civil Guard in Majorca mentioned: “I can affirm the arrest of a British man yesterday at Palma Airport on suspicion of sexual assault.

“He allegedly sexually assaulted a flight attendant on a plane from Newcastle to Palma.”