A disabled schoolboy has been left housebound after EasyJet staff made him ditch his wheelchair battery on a flight back from Disneyland Paris.
Anthony Higgins, 14, from Liverpool, has Duchenne muscular dystrophy which leaves him unable to walk and was returning from a three-day trip to the theme park funded by Make A Wish Foundation when a pilot refused to allow his £1,000 battery on board - despite him flying out with it.
The teenager, also known as AJ, suffers muscle weakness from the progressive genetic disorder and has been 'stuck in his house' unable to attend school since being forced to dump the battery in Paris, his mother said.
Melissa Higgins, a full-time carer, and partner Christopher Harvey, 36, took their family for the 'dream' trip on August 27 but they were left 'humiliated' and in tears when returning home.
The mother-of-four said a pilot refused to allow the wheelchair battery onto the flight back from Paris Charles de Gaulle to Manchester airport on August 29 as the wattage wasn't visible.
