Blue’s Lee Ryan avoids jail for drunkenly assaulting black flight attendant

Boyband singer, who told the woman he wanted her ‘chocolate children’, given 12-month suspended sentence

The boyband singer Lee Ryan has avoided a jail term for drunkenly assaulting a black flight attendant and abusing her by saying he wanted her “chocolate children”.

Ryan, who found fame with the pop group Blue, received a 12-month suspended prison sentence for racially aggravated common assault by beating and behaving in an abusive way towards the cabin crew member.