BlackBerry ex-exec deported for boozy tantrum on Air Canada flight

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from the Toronto Star:



Former BlackBerry executive George Campbell has been deported to his native Scotland after an infamous incident of rowdy drunkenness on an Air Canada flight.

Campbell and fellow former corporation vice-president Paul Alexander Wilson ended up forcibly restrained after setting out from Toronto aboard an Air Canada flight to Beijing on business for Research in Motion (now named BlackBerry) on Nov. 28, 2011.

The pair pleaded guilty to mischief and were ordered to pay $38,878 restitution each after their boozy antics forced the flight to land in Vancouver. They spent two days in custody and both were fired.

Despite their guilty pleas, they sought to appeal their conviction and have the restitution order lifted. The B.C. Court of Appeal turned them down earlier this year. ...............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.thestar.com/news/crime/2013/03/21/blackberry_exexec_deported_for_boozy_tantrum_on_air_canada_flight.html

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