British Airways cabin boss accused of sexually assaulting sleeping stewardesses

Daily Mail​

26-05-2025

A British Airways cabin boss sexually assaulted a sleeping air stewardess after being accused of sex attacks on boozy trips abroad, a court has heard.
Amardip Dhariwal is alleged to have carried out a sexual assault in 2022 after being accused of raping female colleagues during boozy work trips abroad.
The 54-year-old, known as Amo, was working as an in-flight lead on long and short haul flights across British Airways at the time of the alleged attacks relating to three women between June 2018 and May 2022.
He is currently on trial at Reading Crown Court accused of one charge of sexual assault by penetration, but jurors have also heard allegations from two other women who claim he raped them years earlier during boozy work trips abroad.
Jurors heard that Dhariwal attacked an air stewardess at his home in Bracknell, Berkshire.
In May 2022, he invited the woman to his home for a catch-up over dinner at which they downed beer, wine and whisky, it was alleged.
The alleged victim, who was then engaged and is now married, dozed off as they watched a film together and she claimed that she woke to find Dhariwal touching her intimately.
She pretended to be asleep before fleeing when he went to bed, she said.
The woman described the meeting as a 'date' in a post and had referred to Dhariwal as her 'work husband'.
He told police: 'Anything that happened was consensual.'
As part of the case, jurors have heard evidence from two other women accusing him of rape.
But these matters are not part of the indictment that he is being tried on.
The first attack is said to have taken place on a work trip to Malaysia in June 2018 when Dhariwal is accused of raping a stewardess while she was asleep and drunk in a hotel room in Kuala Lumpur.
The second attack is alleged to have happened in March 2020 when Dhariwal allegedly raped a colleague in his Singapore hotel room.
She claimed she awoke naked in his bed and was confused about how she got there and what had happened.
When she confronted him on Facebook, Dhariwal, was said to have replied: 'You didn't say no in bed, hun.'
Singapore police investigated the allegations but took no further action at the time and did not assist British police, it was said.
The defendant from Southall, West London, denies any wrongdoing.
He denies a single count of assault by penetration.
The trial continues.