Architect was found guilty in October of physically assaulting a flight attendant
Simone de Gale has been arrested for failure to attend court and will be sentenced later this month.
The founder of Simone de Gale Architects was convicted on 15 October of physically assaulting a member of cabin crew on a flight between Dubai and London on 5 February.
She failed to attend her trial at Ealing Magistrates Court and magistrates subsequently issued a warrant for her arrest.
In an update today, the Metropolitan Police said De Gale was arrested on 24 October at Heathrow airport and taken into custody.
No new charges were pressed relating to her failure to attend her trial and she will be sentenced on 30 November at Uxbridge Magistrates Court.
De Gale was found guilty last month of four offences including behaving in a threatening, abusive, insulting or disorderly manner towards a member of aircraft crew and being drunk in an aircraft.
She was also convicted of using threatening or abusive words or behaviour likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress, and assault by beating.
The UK registered architect, who is based in Dubai and has an office in Belgravia, has held a number of senior elected positions at the RIBA including as a national council member, according to official RIBA documents.
In 2023, she was selected to front a UK government trade campaign and appeared on billboards and video advertisements across the London Underground.
The Department for Business and Trade’s (DBT) campaign aimed to encourage more UK architects to export their services internationally following a series of mutual recognition agreements with the US, Australia and New Zealand. De Gale also joined a number of government-led trade missions with the DBT.
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