Family kicked off flight for child's 'bomb threat'... but he has Tourette's

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The dad of a 13-year-old boy with Tourette's syndrome who was denied on board a British Airways flight after shouting "bomb" has hit out at the airline for leaving his son in tears. Mason Entwistle and his family were refused access to their Alicante-bound flight by the airline just before they were due to board because of "safety risks". The devastated schoolboy and his parents Martyn, 39, and Gemma, 36, were then marched back to the terminal by armed police officers at Gatwick Airport. The family was forced to miss two days of their holiday and needed to rebook their flight with another airline. Speaking to LBC's Shelagh Fogarty, dad Martyn said: "We booked the flights with British Airways. We rang him before we went and explained everything we could possibly say. "We explained that there's a very strong chance that he probably would say the word bomb, plane crash, everything that you could think of as linked to an airport. "There's a high chance he's going to say it, and they

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