Daily Mail - 16.08.2019

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Hero pilot of

bird-strike jet

lands in field

A RUSSIAN pilot has been

hailed a hero for landing a jet

carrying 233 passengers in a

corn field after a bird strike

took out both engines.

The Ural Airlines flight from

Moscow to Simferopol in the

Crimea came down three

miles from take-off when it hit

a flock of seagulls yesterday.

The Airbus A321 made a

‘belly’ landing with the

engines off and its wheels

retracted. Passengers, who

cheered on landing, were

evacuated using inflatable

ramps. Twenty three were

hurt, but none seriously.

‘Everyone is alive. The pilot

is a genius,’ said one.

me’. Kelly then got out of the

bed and said ‘I thought I was

with Levi’ – a reference to a

woman he had started seeing.

The boyfriend said the woman

was ‘distressed’ and ‘in bits’.

The court also heard from a

female friend of Kelly’s who

told the jury he twice sexually

touched her when she was

asleep as they shared a bed.

She said after the first occa-

sion: ‘I was angry and pushed

him off. He was really apolo-

getic and he said he was sorry

and he didn’t mean to.’

The witness said she was

‘absolutely sure’ he knew what

he was doing. After the second

occasion a year later, she

texted him: ‘I find it disgust-

ing what you did to me while I

By Chris Brooke

Sleepwalker, 21

‘in sex assault on

friend’s partner’

A MAN who suffers from a rare

sleep disorder tried to have sex

with his friend’s girlfriend after

walking into their bedroom, a jury

heard yesterday.

Dale Kelly, 21, allegedly sexually

assaulted the woman, who screamed

when she realised what was happening.

He had gone to bed with ‘sex in his mind’

after using dating app Tinder shortly before

falling asleep, York Crown Court was told. It

followed a drunken night out when Kelly

had taken condoms with him because he

intended ‘to pull’.

The jury heard Kelly suffers from the sleep

disorder parasomnia, which can involve

sleepwalking. He also experiences sexsom-

nia, where sexual activity takes place dur-

ing sleep, it was claimed.

Kelly, of Dalton-le-Dale, County Durham,

denies sexual assault. His lawyers claim he

was asleep at the time and not in control of

what he was doing. The court heard Kelly,

two friends and the woman had been on a

night out and returned to a house in Tad-

caster, North Yorkshire, in 2017.

They went to bed at around 4am, with the

couple sharing a bed on another floor. The

alleged victim’s boyfriend told the jury he

was woken by his girlfriend shouting his

name and asking: ‘What the f*** is he doing

in our bed?’ She claimed ‘He’s tried to rape

‘What’s he doing

in our bed?’

was asleep.’ Another text read:

‘Please make sure you have

consent with other girls.’

Expert neurologist Neil

Munro told the court Kelly

suffered from parasomnia,

which can lead to sleepwalk-

ing and sleep-sex.

He said the condition was

caused by parts of the brain

being awake while others

slept. He explained: ‘The part

of the brain that is asleep is

what we need to be human. It

is the part that makes us

decent human beings.

‘The ancients were right

when they said there is a beast

in all of us that arises in sleep.’

Mr Munro said a likely sce-

nario was that Kelly had expe-

rienced a ‘target parasomnia’,

where he involuntarily carried

out the act of initiating sex.

The case continues.

Court: Dale Kelly yesterday

Compiled by ETAN SMALLMAN

and ADAM JACOT DE BOINOD

DAY

ON THIS

August 16, 2019

FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE

AUGUST 16, 1945

LoNDoN went crazy last night. The rollick-

ing thousands who turned out to celebrate

victory over Japan [V-J Day] made the

biggest and noisiest crowd London ever saw.

Just after midnight bonfires were lit, there

were 200 casualties from fireworks, windows

were smashed and phone kiosks wrecked.

AUGUST 16, 1971

HArVEY Smith last night was sensationally

disqualified from collecting a £2,000 prize,

the world of showjumping’s richest — hours

after winning the Wills British Jumping

Derby title on Mattie Brown at Hickstead.

Show director Douglas Bunn said the

disqualification was ordered as Smith made

a ‘disgusting gesture’ [a V-sign] to officials.

[The decision was reversed two days later.]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

SIr Trevor McDonald, 80.

The Trinidad-born Bafta-

winning ex-News At Ten host

(right) met Colonel Gaddafi

and Saddam Hussein, got

the first British TV interview

with Nelson Mandela after

his release from jail, and

counted Enoch Powell as a

fan. Britain’s first black TV newsman said,

while young, he refined his accent listening to

richard Dimbleby on the World Service.

KATHArINE Hamnett, 72. The English

fashion designer is best known for her

T-shirts with political slogans , such as

‘Education Not Missiles’ and ‘Choose Life’,

which were worn by everyone from Madonna

to Wham! in the Eighties. She once met

Margaret Thatcher wearing one with the

anti-nuclear slogan ‘58% Don’t Want

Pershing’. Hamnett said the slogans had all

been ‘cries from the heart’.

BORN ON THIS DAY

THoMAS Edward Lawrence

(1888-1935). The 5ft 5in Brit-

ish soldier who gained fame

as Lawrence of Arabia

(right) was born in Trema-

dog, Wales. Played by 6ft 2in

Peter o’Toole in the 1962

film, T.E. Lawrence was

once described by a supe-

rior as the ‘untidiest officer

in the British Army’. Lawrence died riding a

motorcycle in Dorset. He crashed after

swerving to avoid two boys on bicycles.

FESS Parker (1924-2010). The American

actor popularised raccoon-skin hats after

playing the title role of Davy Crockett in a

1950s Disney-produced TV series. He also

had a hit with its theme song, The Ballad of

Davy Crockett. The 6ft 6in actor was named

a Disney Legend in 1991. After retiring from

acting, he opened hotels, meeting and

greeting guests personally.

ON AUGUST 16...

IN 1819, an estimated 18 people were killed

and 700 injured in the Peterloo Massacre

in Manchester.

IN 1977, Elvis Presley died, aged 42, after

being found on the floor of the bathroom at

his Graceland mansion in Memphis.

WORD WIZARDRY

GUESS THE DEFINITION: Gowpen

A) Struggling to walk. B) Too much for a

wheelbarrow, but not enough for a cart.

C) A double handful. Answer below

PHRASE EXPLAINED

Bless your lucky star: An expression of

gratitude for a lucky thing that has happened

to you: from the Middle Ages when it was

thought the positions of stars could influence

your future.

QUOTE FOR TODAY

The liberals can understand

everything but people who

don’t understand them.

Lenny Bruce, U.S. comedian (1925-1966)

JOKE OF THE DAY

I HAD a dream that the ocean had turned

orange... But it was just a Fanta sea.

Guess The Definition answer: C.