Golfer held for sexual assault
He was taken into custody and subsequently released under investigation.
London: Danish golf star Thorbjorn Olesen was arrested on suspicion of sexually assaulting a passenger during a first class flight from the United States to London, British media reported on Thursday.
According to The Sun newspaper, 29-year-old Olesen allegedly molested a sleeping woman before urinating in the aisle and then getting involved in an abusive tirade with crew on a British Airways flight from Memphis where he had been competing in the St Jude Invitational last weekend.
Olesen, a member of the 2019 European Ryder Cup team and a five-time champion on the European Tour, needed to be calmed down by fellow player Ian Poulter.
London’s Metropolitan Police said a 29-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of sexual assault, being drunk on board an aircraft and failing to comply with the orders of cabin crew.
A spokesman said: “He was taken into custody and subsequently released under investigation”.
Poulter’s agent Paul Dunkley told The Sun that the English star had helped to calm a “slightly intoxicated” passenger, adding: “He (Poulter) then went to sleep and the first he knew of anything else was when the police were waiting at Heathrow.”
A spokesman told the Daily Tele-graph: “This is an active police matter and therefore we have no comment.”
Skater John abused Olympic medallist
Los Angeles: Olympic bronze medallist Ashley Wagner revealed Thursday she was sexually abused by John Coughlin, the latest of several figure skaters to accuse the former US skater of assault.
In a first-person account published by USA Today, Wagner, 28, said Coughlin assaulted her in June 2008 when she was 17.
Coughlin, who committed suicide in January after an investigation into multiple abuse allegations against him was confirmed, was 22 at the time.
Wagner said Coughlin assaulted her after climbing into bed with her, kissing and groping her without permission following a party for teammates.
“I was absolutely paralysed in fear,” Wagner told the newspaper.
Coughlin, who denied the assault allegations before taking his own life, stopped and left the room after Wagner told him to leave. “I now know that regardless of the events of that night, I got into that bed thinking I was safe to just fall asleep. He was the one who took away that safety,” Wagner wrote.
“I went into that house just wanting to have fun with my friends. He was the one who shattered all of that,” added Wagner, a bronze medallist at the 2014 Winter Olympics.
In May, Coughlin’s former partner Bridget Namiotka revealed she had also been abused.