GIRL, 9, manages to pass through customs using a passport that identifies her as a unicorn.

Emily Harris, from Cwmbran, Wales, took the toy passport she had made for her design-a-bear unicorn named Lily on her week-long holiday to Turkey.

Emily's mum Nicky said she accidentally handed over the unicorn's passport instead of Emily's.

It was only after the passport was stamped and returned that she realised her mistake.

"I didn't realise until I was putting the passports away. There was a moment of panic when I thought someone would come chasing after us, but nothing," Ms Harris told the New York Daily News.

"The passport doesn't even look real - it's got gold teddy bears on the front and was a completely different size from mine and my husband, Allen's.

"The man even asked Emily how old she was, and she told him nine, before he stamped it."

"The picture ID wasn't even of Emily, it was of a pink unicorn. "And to make it worse, the unicorn wasn't even on holiday with us.

Officials in every country are meant to scan passports and cross check passenger details before allowing them into the country.

"We saw the funny side, and laughed at the fact that the officer had even stamped the passport. But at the same time, it's a worry to any parent, how easy it would be to smuggle a child through customs and into another country."

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