Lionel Richie’s son has been cautioned by police after threatening to explode a bomb on a plane in a row with security staff at Heathrow airport.
Miles Brockman Richie, 24, a model, also allegedly hit a security guard dring the clash at Terminal Five on Saturday morning.
Richie was said to have got into an argument with officials after being denied onto a flight for an unknown reason.
Witnesses told the TMZ website that Richie “became angry” after he was refused entry and allegedly claimed he had a bomb in his case which he would detonate if he was not allowed onboard.
He is then said to have hit a security guard who had tried to intervene in the row at around 8.40am.
Richie was arrested by police called to the scene and later accepted a caution for communicating false information causing a bomb hoax and battery before being released.
The 24-year-old is one of two children from Lionel Richie’s former marriage to dancer Diane Alexander. Their second child is Sofia Richie, 20, who also works as a model.
The parents separated when Miles was eight and Sofia four.
A spokesman for Scotland Yard said: “On Saturday, 19 January, a 24-year-old man accepted a caution for communicating false information causing a bomb hoax and battery following an incident at Heathrow Terminal 5 earlier that morning.”
They added that they would not be confirming the identity of the man in question as only a caution was made.
Lionel Richie, 69, has sold more than 100 million records, with hits like All Night Long, Hello and Three Times a Lady, and is estimated to be worth £150million.
He is also father to reality star Nicole Richie, whom he adopted with first wife Brenda Harvey.
In August a librarian who made a bomb hoax because he was late for his flight at Gatwick was jailed for ten months.
Jacob Meir Abdellak, 47, from Hackney, east London, rang police and told them there was a bomb threat at the airport eight minutes before his Norwegian flight to Los Angeles was scheduled to take off.
Despite the plane being delayed for 90 minutes because of his call, he was still late for his flight and became abusive with airline staff when they refused to allow him onboard.
Airport staff later tracked the anonymous call to the phone Abdellak used for his original booking.
He was jailed for 10 months and ordered to pay a £140 victim surcharge when he appeared at Lewes crown court.
