Brit, 46, re-arrested after ‘flying from Heathrow to New York without passport or ticket by tailgating passenger’
A BRIT has been re-arrested after he allegedly flew to New York from the UK without a boarding pass or passport.
The Sun told how Craig Stuart is accused of “tailgating” fellow passengers through checkpoints at Heathrow to board the British Airways flight.
The 46-year-old was finally caught around nine hours later when he landed at JFK airport and could not produce any identification.
He was sent back to the UK to be dealt with by British cops and was held on suspicion of breaching a series of aviation offences on Christmas Day.
But in a further humiliation for UK police, he then became the subject of a missing person‘s appeal after allegedly escaping hospital.
A warrant was issued when he failed to appear for a hearing at Uxbridge Magistrates’ Court on January 22.
The Metropolitan Police today confirmed the traveller has been arrested and remains in custody.
The Sun understands that jobless Stuart turned up at the UK’s biggest airport on December 23 last year and avoided check-in, heading straight to the boarding pass security gates at Terminal 5.
Incredibly, despite the building heaving with cops and airport agents, he walked through the automatic gates behind another passenger in front of him.
He then was ushered through a series of security checkpoints, and passport control, without showing any paperwork.
Each time he simply ‘tailgated’ the passenger ahead of him, it is alleged.
Stuart was then able to board a bus at a BA departure gate alongside hundreds of other passengers flying to the US for Christmas.
He was welcomed onto the British Airways jumbo despite having no boarding pass, and helped himself to free food and drinks throughout the long-haul flight.
Stuart has been charged with Obtaining Services by Deception; Being Unlawfully Airside; Boarding an Aircraft without permission.
British Airways said: “We are assisting the authorities with their investigation.”