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Australian man is jailed overseas after his holiday to Thailand turns into a nightmare – and he said the unthinkable before a flight

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Marli Curtis Philip Moncrieff (pictured), 36, flew from Perth to Phuket, stopping in Singapore, with his girlfriend on November 20 last year. But he was denied entry to Thailand because a visa page was reportedly torn from his passport.
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An Australian tourist has been beaten overseas for threatening to crash a Jetstar plane and kill everyone on board after he was refused entry to Thailand.

Marli Curtis Philip Moncrieff, 36, flew from Perth to Phuket, stopping in Singapore, with his girlfriend on November 20 last year.

But he was denied entry to Thailand because a visa page was reportedly torn from his passport.

Moncrieff was then sent back to Singapore, where he was also denied entry for the same reason.

Changi Airport authorities kept him in a waiting room before they could put him on a Jetstar flight back to Perth.

Moncrieff was reportedly upset at having spent a lot of money and annual leave on the disastrous trip.

It was while boarding that a flight attendant heard Moncrieff say: “I want the plane to crash and kill everyone.”

Alarmed, the cabin crew informed the captain and his managers, who agreed to remove Moncrieff from the flight.

Marli Curtis Philip Moncrieff (pictured), 36, flew from Perth to Phuket, stopping in Singapore, with his girlfriend on November 20 last year. But he was denied entry to Thailand because a visa page was reportedly torn from his passport.

They also searched his luggage but found nothing suspicious.

The Australian citizen was handed over to local authorities, who took him to the Jetstar counter to arrange another repatriation flight.

An immigration officer overheard Moncrieff’s conversation with his girlfriend.

“If they put me on another flight, I will tell them I will crash the plane again,” Moncrieff reportedly said, according to Asia News Channel.

Alarmed, the immigration officer asked Moncrieff to repeat what he had said.

He repeated the threat and said he wanted to die or be sent to prison.

The immigration officer reported him to the police, who arrested him that same day.

Moncrieff wrote a letter of apology to the judge, saying he felt bad for alarming airport staff who were “simply doing their job.”

Changi Airport authorities kept him in a waiting room before they could put him on a Jetstar flight back to Perth. It was when he was boarding that a flight attendant heard Moncrieff say:

Changi Airport authorities kept him in a waiting room before they could put him on a Jetstar flight back to Perth. It was when he was boarding that a flight attendant heard Moncrieff say: “I want the plane to crash and kill everyone” (file image)

But Chief District Judge Toh Han Li told him that “mere words can have serious consequences.”

Noting the current climate in which aviation safety is of utmost concern, the judge said the sentence had to consider general deterrence.

“On the contrary, it seems to me that the defendant understood the seriousness of his words when contemplating the idea of ​​being sent to prison,” the judge added.

Moncrieff was jailed for eight weeks on Wednesday after pleading guilty to one charge of using threatening words to cause alarm.

Jetstar declined to comment.

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