Chinese painter ‘threw cup at Cathay flight attendant for not serving him quickly enough’
Flight attendant says painter threw container at her when she failed to fetch him water immediately, while he claims he dropped it
A mainland artist hurled a plastic cup at a Cathay Pacific flight attendant on a Hong Kong-bound plane after she was slow to fetch him some water, a court heard yesterday.
Lee Yuet-fung, who has made a name for himself with his tiger and bamboo drawings, pleaded not guilty to one count of common assault on board an aircraft flying from Singapore to Hong Kong on December 10.
Lee claimed instead that his hands were trembling at the time because he suffered from severe diabetes and needed the water to take his medicine.
“My hands were shaking … and I dropped the cup [onto the floor],” the 68-year-old told Tsuen Wan Court yesterday. “I didn’t throw the cup at her.”
According to the flight stewardess, Lai Wing-man, Lee assaulted her as she was collecting other passengers’ food trays and she was too busy to fetch the water immediately.