An unaccompanied child was left alone at an airport departure gate after being removed from an overbooked EasyJet plane.

Casper Read, 15, was taken from his seat before the flight to Toulouse could leave Gatwick Airport.

The schoolboy, from Worthing, West Sussex, had been given a boarding pass for a seat on flight EZY833 on Thursday morning.

But, having texted his mother to tell her he was safely on board, another passenger reportedly claimed Casper's seat and he was told to leave the plane as there was not enough space.