The judge ordered Sullivan to pay £9,270 in prosecution costs, and £8,050.27 in police costs – bringing the total bill to £17,320.27.
Surrey Police spent around £15,000 on a chartered flight from Spain to bring him back to the UK, a hearing at Staines Magistrates’ Court was told on Thursday.
The total costs to both Surrey Police and the Crown Prosecution Service to bring Sullivan back to the UK in August reached £28,350.27, the hearing was told.
Prosecution Kane Alexander, however, told the judge there were concerns that Sullivan – a fitness influencer – could be recognised by members of the public on a commercial plane.
“It seems that Mr Sullivan travels around on planes with impunity without too much risk to himself, so I don’t really understand,” Judge Cooper said.
“In my view, it is not just or reasonable for him to pay a chartered flight when I have been given no satisfactory explanation for why that should be.”
