“I was just trying to get some room to stretch my leg,” Mr Bantu said.

“But nobody was helping me. They refused to listen about my medical illness and what I was going through. I was treated like a slave.”

Mr Bantu, a retiree from south London, went on: “They ambushed me. They tied my feet, my shoulders and my arms and they left me in my seat.

“I was completely humiliated, my human rights had been taken away from me. I didn't even have the energy to fight them because my blood pressure would have gone even higher.

“It's when some of the other passengers expressed their concern for me that they stopped the plane and landed to kick us out.’