A Sidcup man has been found guilty of spitting at a passenger, chomping on another man's arm for two minutes and screaming down an air hostess for being a “Nazi bitch” on a nightmare flight home from Dubai.

A court heard how Joshua McCarthy, 21 of Acacia Way, “lost it” about 90 minutes from Heathrow airport after necking bottles of wine.

He spat on a passenger in front of him and, when he was told to calm down, called the BA stewardess a "f**king red-haired Nazi bitch”.

Another of the air rage victims was bitten by the drunken 21-year-old so severely that he gave up sex with his girlfriend for a month in case he was infected, a jury at Isleworth Crown Court heard today (July 18).

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McCarthy at Isleworth Crown Court was handed a suspended sentence by Judge Sandeep Kainth

Chris McNerlin was helping BA staff restrain McCarthy, who had drunk five small bottles of wine, when he sank his teeth into his forearm breaking the celibate's skin.

McCarthy narrowly escaped jail after he was handed a suspended sentence for his drunken rage.

Douglas Adams, prosecuting, said: "The flight was full of families and young children returning from the Easter holidays in Dubai.

"The defendant was sat next to his parents.

“With around 90 minutes of the flight remaining, the crew were bringing around breakfast boxes and that sort of thing.

"A short time later the passenger in the seat in front said he felt uneasy when McCarthy started waving his hands at a young black woman waiting by the toilet with her baby.

"He says he shuffled in his seat to make it known that he had noticed the defendant knocking into his seat.

"He says he turned and looked at Mr McCarthy and then looked forward."

Mr Adams said at this moment, McCarthy spat in the passenger's hair.

He said: "He felt a spit of air being blown on the back of his head and felt spit on his hair - a wet substance."

The passenger in front, asked "what are you doing" and told him to "f**king sit down and shut up".

A member of the cabin crew then urged him to sit down but was called a "f**king red-haired Nazi bitch", before Mr McNerlin intervened and received McCarthy's clamped jaw plunge into his arm.

In a victim impact statement to the court, Mr McNerlin said he had "received an incredibly vicious bite".

He said: "Despite wearing a jumper, it broke my skin.

"Since the bite, the anxiety has been unbearable.

"It had been difficult to be intimate with my girlfriend because it has taken a month to make sure I am clear of infection."

After the attack McNerlin, posted pictures on social media of the bite mark, along with one of himself giving the thumbs up as he sat in the cockpit once the plane had landed safely.

He wrote: "That time when you help restrain and handcuff a nutter at 40,000 ft. He bites you, but it's all OK because Captain Kendal lets you sit in the cockpit.'

The court heard how the flight attendant had been having trouble sleeping since the attack, adding "I cannot be alone around men, or be in the presence of drunk men."

Sentencing Judge Sandeep Kainth told McCarthy: "Your behaviour with respect to what took place was absolutely disgraceful.

"Firstly, you were intoxicated to such an extent that a member of the public aboard that flight had to intervene to assist the crew.

"Second, there were families present.

“Thirdly, there were young children present as well.

"The bite lasted for two minutes, which is quite substantial.

“With regard to the spitting, that is outrageously disgusting."

McCarthy was given two months for spitting, nine months for being drunk on an aircraft and four months for assaulting Christopher McNerlin.

The sentences are to be served concurrently, and were suspended for 18 months.

He was also ordered to pay compensation totalling £650, costs totalling £400 and ordered to carry out 220 hours of unpaid work in the community.

McCarthy thanked the judge as he walked free from court with both his parents.