Mason Entwistle, 13, was set to fly to Alicante from Gatwick Airport on Saturday with a party of 10 including his father Martyn, mother Gemma and two sisters.

A 13-year-old boy with Tourette’s has been blocked from boarding a British Airways flight after he shouted the word “bomb”.

Mason Entwistle, 13, was set to fly to Alicante from Gatwick Airport on Saturday with a party of 10 including his father Martyn, mother Gemma and two sisters.

Airline staff said that the family were denied boarding because of the ‘threats made’

The teenager's father was left fuming after the airline escorted them out of London Gatwick airport by armed security, all because of his son's involuntary outburst