BBC’s Frank Gardner criticises airline after crawling to toilet on flight

Frank Gardner’s legs were paralysed when he was shot in Saudi Arabia in 2004. Photograph: Gary Doak/Alamy

The BBC’s security correspondent, Frank Gardner, has described how he was forced to crawl on the floor of a plane in order to reach the toilet on a flight from Warsaw to London.

Writing on the BBC website, Gardner, whose legs were paralysed when he was shot six times by al-Qaida sympathisers in Saudi Arabia in 2004, said the experience on the LOT Polish Airlines flight was “physically deeply uncomfortable and also, of course, quite degrading”.