Rare footage has revealed what happens onboard a deportation flight for foreign criminals - with some seen being handed bank cards pre-loaded with £2,000.
Footage shows the group of serious offenders, including killers, thieves and sexual abusers, being returned to Romania having served part of their prison sentences.
As many as six staff are seen accompanying every passenger up the stairs to the plane to avoid them attempting to flee - while others have to be put in restraints to stop them lashing out.
The footage - filmed by ITV News - is the first time journalists have been allowed onboard a deportation flight for foreign national offenders (FNOs).
A total of 47 people were deported, most of them men with half a dozen women, in an operation requiring almost a hundred staff that would have cost taxpayers hundreds of thousands of pounds.
