A BRITISH Airways cabin boss has been found guilty of preying on a sleeping air hostess after downing beer and wine at his home.
Amardip “Amo” Dhariwal, 55, assaulted the female colleague after boozing with her over dinner.
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The ex-lead flight manager was on trial for a single attack on one woman in 2022 — but a jury also heard from two other stewardesses who alleged he raped them on foreign trips.
Dhariwal earlier denied but was convicted of one count of sexual assault by penetration on Tuesday after a two-week trial.
He could face years in jail according to sentencing guidelines.
One British Airways stewardess told The Sun that “dozens of BA crew have been praying for this outcome”.
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“This guy was a brute of a boss. The worst kind of manager bully. A proper old school sex pest. Amo was a disgusting creep,” she said.
Reading Crown Court heard he invited the woman to his then-home in Bracknell, Berkshire, for dinner, where they drank beer and wine.
The woman, then engaged and now married, said she dozed off as they watched a film and woke to find Dhariwal touching her intimately.
Prosecutor James Partridge had told jurors: “They met three months prior to the incident on a flight to Cape Town.
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“They got on so well that they met for coffee a few times. She went to his house for taco and movie nights.”
She even referred to Dhariwal as her “work husband”.
Mr Partridge added: “They started watching a film. As they watched it, the victim said she had her legs up.
“She awoke to the defendant touching her.”
He said the woman “felt bewildered” and escaped by finding a key while he was upstairs and called a friend “crying and whispering” on the phone.
Dhariwal, now of Southall, West London, told cops: “Anything that happened was consensual.”
The jury was told Dhariwal allegedly raped a colleague in a Singapore hotel room in 2020.
She woke naked in his bed, confused by how she got there, she said.
Local police investigated but took no further action and would not help British cops, it was said.
The other stewardess claimed she was assaulted while asleep and drunk in a hotel room in Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur in 2018.
Dhariwal denied those allegations.
He was handed conditional bail and will be sentenced at the same court on October 19 this year.
The BA air stewardess added: “The brave BA women who came forward and helped get Amo convicted deserve a medal.
“They have saved many other women from being attacked by this depraved individual.”
She claimed he would “target inexperienced BA woman” younger than his daughter and that he “turned into a predator” after splitting with his wife years earlier.
She said “his disgusting behaviour would start on the plane itself”, adding: “Down-route, his tactic was to ply girls with drinks during wild nights out betwen flights, so he could later try and take them back to his room.
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“At the end of the boozy night, he would target individual women and say, ‘I’ve got Baileys in my room, come and have a night-cap with me’. And then inside his room he’d claim everything was consensual.
“He was notorious. He had a reputation and women would warn each other about him. You never wanted to be alone with him, even in a public space.”