First picture of Aer Lingus passenger who bit fellow traveller then died after cocaine pellets burst in his stomach

24-year-old John Kennedy dos Santos Gurjao sank his teeth into a passenger, then lay screaming and shaking before being pronounced dead at Cork airport, where the Aer Lingus flight diverted...

John Kennedy dos Santos Gurjao sank his teeth into a passenger who tried to restrain him, then lay screaming and shaking before being pronounced dead at Cork airport, where the Aer Lingus flight diverted.

The 24-year-old Brazilian was on the plane from the Portuguese capital of Lisbon to Dublin on Sunday evening when the incident unfolded just after 5pm.

Packages were reportedly recovered from the body and sent for analysis after the postmortem.

A Portuguese woman in her 40s, thought to have been sat next to him, was arrested after 4lbs of white powder believed to be amphetamine was allegedly found in her luggage.

Cocaine in that quantity has a street value of £40,000.

Heartbroken family members took to Facebook to pay tribute to John after he died on the Airbus A320.

They were informed of his death in a phone call from the Brazilian Embassy in Dublin. John was one of nine siblings.