Flight attendant `just doing her job’: [2 All-round First Edition]
Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 15 Feb 2007: 3.
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Graham Robertson said his daughter [Lisa Robertson], 38, was a “good kid” who had done nothing wrong. The Qantas colleagues who claimed to have seen Ms Robertson leaving the same toilet as [Ralph Fiennes] were “probably ugly as a hat full of arseholes and were just jealous”, Mr Robertson told Sydney’s TheDaily Telegraph, which today published thefirst pictures of the flight attendant.
Fiennes, star of The English Patient, Schindler’s List and The Constant Gardener, struck up a conversation with Ms Robertson during a flight from Darwin to Mumbai on January 30.
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THE Qantas hostess at the centre of a mile-high sex scandal involving British actor Ralph Fiennes was “not a bad-looking girl” who liked to look after people.
Graham Robertson said his daughter Lisa, 38, was a “good kid” who had done nothing wrong. The Qantas colleagues who claimed to have seen Ms Robertson leaving the same toilet as Fiennes were “probably ugly as a hat full of arseholes and were just jealous”, Mr Robertson told Sydney’s The Daily Telegraph, which today published thefirst pictures of the flight attendant.
Before joining Qantas, Ms Robertson was a policewoman for 14 years, and had posed as a drug addict to trap some of Sydney’s biggest dealers.
Fiennes, star of The English Patient, Schindler’s List and The Constant Gardener, struck up a conversation with Ms Robertson during a flight from Darwin to Mumbai on January 30.
According to Ms Robertson’s statement to Qantas, Fiennes followed her into the toilet and became “amorous” towards her.
On Monday, The Australian reported her claims that she had explained to Fiennes that his actions were inappropriate and that “after a short period of timeI convinced him to leave”.
Mr Robertson said his daughter was just doing her job.
“If someone wants a cup of coffee and biscuits, she looks after them. She’s not a bad-looking girl. If you do the right thing, people take a liking to you,” he said.
In her statement, Ms Robertson said it was common on long flights to build rapport with passengers. “I deny that my behaviour on this flight was such that my employment should be terminated,” she wrote.
Ms Robertson is reported to have joined the NSW Police Force in 1988 and worked in the Major Crime Squad drug unit as an undercover agent.
She has been suspended pending an investigation.