Blue singer Lee Ryan wins bid to withdraw guilty plea for ‘assaulting officer’

Police footage showed Ryan “snarling” and swearing at a Pc Bryett after allegedly biting a Pc as officers attempted to arrest him on his arrival at the airport.

Blue singer Lee Ryan (Jonathan Brady/PA)

Singer Lee Ryan has successfully applied to withdraw his guilty plea for drunkenly assaulting a police officer during his arrest for abusing a black flight attendant.

A hearing in January was told the singer, 39, was “slurring his words and staggering around” after drinking a bottle of port before a British Airways flight from Glasgow to London City Airport on July 31 last year.