London : Five people, including four women, have been charged after a laser pen was shone at an aircraft in Edinburgh on Friday, police said today. Officers on patrol in the Drylaw area observed a green light coming from Marine Drive just before midnight. Edinburgh Airport later confirmed that a pilot had reported a laser pen incident during the plane’s descent.
A 16-year-old boy and four females, aged 16, 17, 19 and 22, who were in two vehicles in Marine Drive, were arrested.
They will all appear in court at a later date, the BBC reported. Chief Inspector Mark Rennie, of Police Scotland, said: “The use of laser pens to distract or obscure the vision of a pilot is an extremely serious offence, which can have very serious consequences.
“We regularly patrol roads below approach routes to deter offenders and respond quickly to any notifications from pilots.
“Anyone found committing this offence will be arrested and charged’.
Woman blinded following laser attack in Britain A 33-year-old woman in the UK has been left blind in one eye after two teenagers targeted her in a laser pen attack. Police are searching for two teenage boys after one of them shone a laser into a woman’s eye in Clydebank, leaving her blind in one eye.
The incident happened as the woman walked under a railway bridge on. Both boys were described as being white, aged about 14 or 15 and wearing dark-coloured sportswear.
One of them had brown hair in a quiff, the BBC reported. The woman was taken to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital for treatment and later reported the incident to police.
