Man Who Died After Biting Passenger On Aer Lingus Flight ‘Had £41,000 Of Drugs In His Stomach’

Investigators have revealed that they found €56,000 (£41,000) of drugs inside a man who died after biting another passenger. Named as Brazilian John Kennedy Santos Gurjao, 24, he had a violent seizure on the flight from Lisbon to Dublin on Sunday before he died, metro.co.uk reports.

 

The drugs – believed to be nearly 2lbs of cocaine in 80 pellets – were found inside his abdomen and a woman he was travelling with was arrested under the Drug Trafficking Act. Police said they found amphetamine in the Portuguese woman’s luggage Passengers described how he was being restrained by crew and passengers after becoming erratic when he bit one of them. He then passed out and never regained consciousness.

 

Passenger John Leonard, from Midleton, County Cork, told 96FM: ‘There was a lot of commotion and cabin crew rushed to the back of the plane. ‘The guy had to be restrained [and] after that, it got worse. He was on the ground shaking violently.

The noise he was making was something I’ve never heard before. It was like a deep anguish, very, very troubled, very guttural, from deep within him.’ Metro UK