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Lily Waddell

Top barrister and his family escorted off British Airways flight by police after row over nanny’s seat

Stock image of a British Airways plane

(Picture: PA Archive)

Police escorted a top barrister and his family off a British Airways flight after a row erupted when cabin crew refused to let the children’s nanny sit with them in business class.

Charles Banner QC, 41, had paid out for business class seats but the nanny’s seat had been downgraded because BA had oversold the seats on the flight sparking the argument onboard with cabin crew.

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