Two women whose ``obnoxious and unruly behaviour'' forced a Cuba-bound Sunwing flight to return to Toronto under a military escort have been given a conditional discharge and ordered to pay a fine.
Ontario Justice Patrice Band issued a sentencing decision in the case of Lilia Ratmanski and Milana Muzikante on Tuesday, finding that a conditional discharge would be ``fit and proportionate'' for both women.
He also ordered both women to pay a fine of $500 each and to pay $7,500 in restitution to Sunwing.
The pair had pleaded guilty to mischief to property and smoking on board an aircraft in relation to their time on board a Sunwing flight that left Toronto on Aug. 27, 2014.
Band's written sentencing decision said that while on the flight, Ratmanski and Muzikante secretly consumed Duty Free alcohol they had bought on the ground, became ``intoxicated and belligerent,'' and disturbed both passengers and crew.
Band said the pair also smoked a cigarette in the washroom of the plane and discarded the butt in a waste-paper dispense, causing the smoke alarm to sound.