A pervert who performed a sex act while sitting next to a mother and her child on board an Emirates flight has avoided jail time.
Britto Lorence, 27, from Kerala, India, exposed himself on the long-haul flight travelling from Dubai to the UK in June last year.
The biotechnology engineer, who has a Master's qualification, was sat in one of the three seats in a row, the other two occupied by the mother and her baby son, as the flight took off.
A court heard that, as the woman got up to make her child a feed, she noticed that the 27-year-old had a blanket over his lap.
Initially, the mother from Australia feared Lorence was concealing a weapon, but realised that he was masturbating.
