FORMER world welterweight champion boxer Kell Brook was quizzed by cops after being accused of causing drunken havoc on a packed easyJet flight and smoking in the toilets.
Brook, 31, was allegedly swearing and shouting with friends on the trip from Liverpool to Barcelona before being questioned by police when the plane touched down in the Spanish city.
James Robinson, 35, and his girlfriend Megan Christowe, 34, claimed they were shocked by the disturbance on June 24 sparked by the talented Sheffield-based fighter.
James, of Boston, Lincs, told the Daily Star that Brook and his friends were “drunk and carried on drinking booze they’d bought in the airport”.
He claimed: “They were loud and Kell’s mate was throwing things around, everyone was getting pretty annoyed.”
It is alleged that at one point after the seatbelt sign went on and after the captain announced over a tannoy that a passenger was smoking in the toilets, Brook emerged from the loos stinking of fags.
The captain also reportedly warned passengers they would have to make an unscheduled stop in France, according to the Daily Star.
James said that he captured a photo of police speaking to Brook and his mates as he left the rear of the plane.
He added: “I wish I’d videoed his behaviour, but you don’t want to pick a fight with a champion boxer.”
A spokesperson for easyJet said: “easyJet can confirm that police met a flight from Liverpool to Barcelona on arrival at Barcelona due to two passengers behaving disruptively.
“easyJet’s cabin crew are highly trained to assess and evaluate all situations and to act quickly and appropriately to ensure that the safety of the flight and other passengers is not compromised at any time.
“Whilst such incidents are rare we take them very seriously and do not tolerate abusive or threatening behaviour on board.
“The safety and wellbeing of passengers and crew is always easyJet’s priority.”
A spokesman for the Civil Guard in Barcelona told the Daily Star: “On June 24 at about 10.50am we received a request that we attend a flight arriving from Liverpool.
"It appeared two difficult passengers were travelling.
“The Civil Guard attended the arrival area for the flight and contacted the personnel on board who informed us that there were two difficult passengers, in a drunken state, bothering passengers during the flight and even smoking on board during the journey.
“The flight captain lodged a complaint with the Civil Guard for breach of air navigation rules by these two passengers, both of whom travelled with British passports.
“The Civil Guard accompanied the passengers to a public area without further incident.
"Neither of them was arrested.”
Brook's fight career was thrown into question when he suffered a broken eye socket as he lost his IBF world welterweight title to American Errol Spence Jr around a month before the easyJet flight incident.
He also broke an eye socket when he jumped up in weight to fight fearsome middleweight Gennady Golovkin in September last year.
Brook, who calls himself "Special K", was stopped in the fifth round of the clash with the best pound-for-pound boxer in the world.
For years Brook has been linked to an eagerly-anticipated grudge fight with domestic rival Amir Khan, which has never materialised.
It's not the first time controversy has dogged Brook career, as he was stabbed in the leg by a machete-wielding thug in Tenerife in 2007 and left needing 32 metal staples in his left thigh.
The classy boxer, who trained at the same Sheffield gym as Prince Naseem Hamed, has vowed to return at light-middleweight following a second eye operation.
He said: "The surgeon said the operation was a success.
"I expect to make a full recovery and I want to fight again in 2017.
"I still have a massive future in the sport."
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