From AP
London — An 18-year-old man of Arab extraction breached the security cordon at London's Stansted airport and got into the cockpit of a Boeing 737 before security officials apprehended him, Essex police said Tuesday.
A spokesman said there was no indication that Josef Monti, who lives in Paris, had any terrorist links.
"That has been investigated, and there are none whatsoever," said the spokesman.
He said Mr. Monti, who broke into the 100-seat European Aviation jet on Wednesday, urinated in the cockpit, but apparently did so out of need rather than a desire to cause damage. He said Mr. Monti had given police no credible reasons for his presence on the plane. "We think he just wanted to go home," said the spokesman.
Mr. Monti pleaded guilty at Chelmsford Crown Court on Friday to one count of criminal damage and two charges under the Aviation Security Act. He was being held in police custody while psychiatrists assess him.
News reports said that after arriving in Britain aboard a Eurostar train from France, Mr. Monti had asked for directions to the Finsbury Park mosque in north London, which is widely regarded as a centre of radical Islam in Britain. Police were unable to confirm this.
The spokesman denied reports that Mr. Monti had caused damage to the plane's instruments.