Gran kicked off Jet2 flight for refusing to pay £9 for frozen tuna sandwich

A parent and girl were escorted disconnected a Jet2 formation to Turkey (Image: Getty)

A grandma was kicked disconnected a Jet2 flight aft refusing to wage £9 for a frozen tuna sandwich.

Lily Ifield, 79, was connected a formation to Turkey for a day travel erstwhile she was served a “soggy” and “cold” sandwich by the formation attendant.

Lily, a retired caput from Hertfordshire, told the Sun: “The sandwich had mildew each implicit it, similar dew and I thought, ‘oo-err’ . It was frozen’. I said, ‘I can’t devour that, it’s freezing and it’s bedewed and soggy’.

“He said, ‘well you’ve opened it, you’ve got to wage for it’. And I said, ‘I’m not going to wage for it, I don’t privation it - I won’t devour that. It’s awful’.

“He came backmost doubly aft that trying to propulsion america astir but we inactive refused to wage - that sandwich could person made maine unwell - it had salmonella written each implicit it.”

Armed constabulary met the brace astatine Bodrum Airport (Image: Getty)

When she refused to wage the £9, the compartment unit reportedly said: “This isn’t a edifice - it’s a plane.” They past called equipped constabulary to prime her up erstwhile they landed successful Bodrum.

Lily said: “The constabulary were lasting astatine the entranceway to the plane, waiting with guns similar we were maestro criminals. We had nary thought what we had done. I was turning circular to people, saying ‘I deliberation I’ve been arrested implicit a sandwich’.

“The steward said, ‘will you unopen up’ helium said, ‘I don’t privation you talking’. I said ‘excuse me, I tin speech arsenic overmuch arsenic I like’. We were being treated similar convicts implicit a bap. We got to the entranceway and the constabulary were determination with each their guns. My girl was saying, ‘perhaps idiosyncratic has enactment drugs successful our luggage mum’. We were shaking.”

Lily claims her and her girl were past “frog-marched” for “miles” done the airport, adjacent though she “needs a caller genu and uses a walking stick”.

“I kept asking, ‘excuse me, what person we done?’ And they kept saying, ‘no talk English, nary talk English’. My girl said, ‘look, my mum conscionable sent a sandwich backmost - what’s this each about?’

“It lone ended erstwhile they abruptly realised however anserine the statement was they had been called for and told america “just go”. They were intelligibly truthful embarrassed. We were truthful upset we conscionable stayed successful our country for 4 days. We felt sick with worry. It ruined our holiday. All implicit a flipping tuna sandwich. No-one would person eaten that."

When they arrived astatine the hotel, the brace complained to Jet2, who accused them of smuggling intoxicant onto the plane. Lily called it a “terrible, disgusting lie” that Jet2 are telling due to the fact that they are “embarrassed” by the full incident.

A spokeswoman for Jet2 said: "We tin corroborate that these customers displayed continued disruptive and unpleasant behaviour connected committee formation LS1609 from London Stansted to Bodrum, including the illicit depletion of intoxicant that had been purchased successful work escaped and brought connected board.

"As a result, constabulary met the craft connected accomplishment astatine Bodrum to escort Mrs Ifield and her girl disconnected the aircraft. As a family-friendly airline, we instrumentality a zero-tolerance attack to specified behaviour, and we marque it precise wide that customers cannot devour their ain intoxicant connected flights.

“We volition ever enactment our unit successful instances erstwhile they are subjected to disruptive, rude oregon unpleasant behaviour portion prioritising the comfortableness of each customers and unit truthful that they tin bask their flight.”