Rashidul Islam, 32, of Brent, North London, anonymously called police 45 minutes before his flight from Gatwick Airport was due to take off, warning: 'Someone may have a bomb on the plane, you need to delay the flight'. Islam, who was flying to Morocco to visit his fiancée, made the bomb hoax after faced travel disruption en route to the airport from Cricklewood, North London. 'But the bomb hoax was intended to make authorities fear there was a genuine enough threat that they needed to search the plane. The flight eventually took off at 8.50pm, after cabin crew had to be swapped having exceeded their hours due to the delay. He was also banned from Gatwick Airport.

Source: Daily Mail January 17, 2020 15:20 UTC