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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Travel
Steven Oldham & Milo Boyd

Disabled man carried off easyJet plane after 'Gatwick staff damage wheelchair'

A dad says he had to be carried off a plane by his wife after staff working at Gatwick airport mistakenly put his wheelchair on the baggage carousel, leaving it with irreparable damage.

Mark Parrin returned to Gatwick on Wednesday after a three-week holiday to Tenerife with his wife Nicola.

The dad-of-three, who has been a wheelchair user since 1990 after suffering a spinal injury, had requested special assistance in advance of the easyJet flight.

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