Ryder Cup winner Thorbjorn Olesen wept in court and said he wants to focus on his golf after he was cleared of sexually assaulting a woman on a British Airways flight.
The Dane, 31, claimed he turned into an “automaton” and was not in control of his body after taking prescription-only sleeping pills bought on a “dodgy website” by his partner Lauren Zafer.
Olesen was on the eight-hour flight from Nashville to London with other professionals including England’s Ian Poulter and Justin Rose following the World Golf Championships-FedEx St Jude Invitational in Memphis.
A trial at Aldersgate House Nightingale Court, in central London, heard how he had drunk beer, red …
- December 17, 2021
