Agent was ‘insistent’ for Emiliano Sala flight to go ahead, court told

Plane operator says Willie McKay kept asking him to arrange trip, on which footballer and the pilot died

A plane operator organised the flight in which the footballer Emiliano Sala was killed after a Premier League agent made insistent" phone calls for it to go ahead, a jury has been told.

David Henderson, a qualified pilot, told Cardiff crown court he was asked to fly the plane himself after receiving a phone call from the football agent Willie McKay.