Jail for bomb hoax lover who tried to stop deportation

A besotted woman who made two hoax bomb calls in a bid to prevent her lover from being deported on a plane from Heathrow has been jailed for six months.

Isleworth Crown Court was told that as a result of the calls made by Elizabeth Mack, 57, to the BAA flight centre in Glasgow last October the plane that Natig Karimov was sitting on was grounded and the flight delayed for 50 minutes.

Jailing the personal assistant, who pleaded guilty to two counts of communicating false information with intent, Judge Martin Edmunds told her: "You are an intelligent woman. You had become committed to Mr Karimov and you had pursued a series of legal means to endeavour to prevent his deportation.

"On that day those means had come to nothing and I have no doubt, on his instigation, you chose illegal means."