The pilot of a plane which crashed, injuring UK Independence Party leader Nigel Farage during a stunt on the day of the General Election last year, has been told by a judge to expect a suspended sentence for threatening to kill the politician.
Justin Adams, 46, from Buckland, near Faringdon, was due to be sentenced at Oxford Crown Court yesterday, but the case was adjourned for a report about Adams’s alcohol problems to be compiled.
The crash happened on May 6 last year at Hinton-in-the-Hedges airfield, near Brackley.
Adams was found guilty last month of five charges of making threats to kill relating to Mr Farage and air crash investigator Martin James.
He has been in custody since the end of the trial.
Adams was again remanded in custody until a hearing at the court on Friday, June 10.
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