Force paid to fly TikTok influencer back to UK after he avoided police custody for almost 12 months
Using a £16,000 private flight to extradite a TikTok influencer wanted on dangerous driving charges back to the UK was “not necessary or proportionate”, a judge has told Surrey police.
Harrison Sullivan, 24, known as HSTikkyTokky, had to be repatriated to the UK last summer after he avoided police custody for almost 12 months after a car crash in Virginia Water, Surrey, in March 2024.
When he was eventually detained for unrelated matters in Spain last August, Surrey police spent £15,990 on a chartered flight to bring him back to the UK from Málaga airport, according to the force.
Prosecution later applied for £18,049 to be paid to Surrey police for the flight and additional extradition expenses – but a judge sitting at Staines magistrates court on Thursday deemed the use of a private jet “not necessary or proportionate”.
