Countryside Alliance supporter Vinnie Jones has been ordered to do 80 hours of community service after admitting air rage charges. Jones, from Wiggington, Tring, Hertfordshire, was in the first-class cabin of a Virgin Atlantic plane from Heathrow to Tokyo when the incident took place on June 1 this year. The former footballer was also ordered to pay £300 compensation to Stephen Driscoll, the passenger he admitted assaulting on board a flight from London to Tokyo on May 31. Jones was fined another £500 for an offence of using threatening words or behaviour towards the cabin crew and was further ordered to pay £300 in costs.

Earlier in the hearing at Uxbridge Magistrates Court, the former footballer, from Tring, Hertfordshire, admitted an offence of common assault on a male passenger and using threatening words or behaviour against members of the cabin crew. Gillian Travers, prosecuting, said Jones had been drinking in the first class area with a group of people. Jones was drinking with a woman but as his behaviour "became more bullish" she returned to her seat.

The court heard that Jones became impatient and "put a plate of food in her lap". Ms Travers explained that the former footballer wanted her to return to the bar. But when another passenger (Mr Driscoll) suggested to Jones that he should leave the woman alone he became aggressive, inciting the actor to launch a tirade of insults and threats. Ms Travers said: "He became abusive, aggressive and physically violent. Mr Jones said 'I am going to have you, I am going to have you killed"'. One passenger alleged that he slapped Mr Driscoll 10 times.

When air crew tried to intervene Jones said: "I can get you murdered. I can get the whole crew murdered for £3,000", having already shouted at one of them "Go and do what you are paid to do and make the coffee." Several members of the crew felt intimidated by what had happened on the aircraft, the court heard.

Jones's record of bad behaviour on and off the pitch is legendary.

In 1995 he was reported to the FA for biting a journalist's nose in a bar in Dublin, leaving his face bloodied.

Early in his career he was hauled before the FA after reportedly threatening to rip off Kenny Dalglish's ear and then "spit in the hole".

In 1998 he was sentenced to 100 hours community service after being convicted of assaulting his neighbour.

He was ordered to pay £400 compensation to Timothy Gear after being found guilty of causing him actual bodily harm criminal damage to his mobile home.

Mr Gear said Jones had bitten, punched and kicked him after banging on the door of his mobile home in November 1997.

He told magistrates in St Alban's that after knocking him to the floor Jones had stamped on his head three or four times.

Among numerous violent incidents on the pitch Jones committed a tackle that left Tottenham's Gary Stevens with badly-damaged knee ligaments.

In 1989 he was sent off for head-butting Everton's Kevin Ratcliffe.

In January 1992 while playing for Chelsea he was fined £1,500 by the FA for making obscene gestures to fans before a match at Arsenal.

The same year he was fined a record £20,000 for his commentary in a video glorifying football violence and dirty tricks. He was also given a six-month ban, suspended for three years.

Most notoriously, he was caught on camera squeezing Paul Gascoigne's testicles during a match.

Earlier this year Jones, a former Wales captain, was accused of theft and assault on a man in South Africa.

He was also accused by three women of assault at a party in Cape Town while in South Africa working on the adventure movie Ultimatum. Prosecutors dropped the case when the allegations were withdrawn.