A mother was shocked after a passenger yelled abuse at her disabled daughter, telling her to "shut that child up".

Nicola Colenso was on a Jet2 flight from Ibiza to Manchester with her family when eight-year-old Yasmin became distressed, and started crying.

Yasmin suffers from Sturge-Weber syndrome, a rare neurological disorder that affects the skin, eyes and nervous system.

WIKIMEDIA COMMONS The air rage incident occurred on a Jet2 flight.

In a Facebook post, Colenso criticised the "abusive" woman on the plane who lashed out at her daughter.

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Colenso said she and her partner, Rick Murray, politely explained the situation, apologised for causing a problem and suggested the woman should ask to be moved.

In response, the woman repeated she was sick of the noise, and said, "Can't you just shut her up?"

She also called Murray a p.... for not keeping his daughter quiet.

Colenso told the MailOnline Yasmin later had to be taken to hospital later that night after suffering several seizures.

"Your behaviour and outburst was not helpful whatsoever in helping to calm down our daughter's anxiety," she wrote on Facebook.

"I hope social media helps find you to let you know that same little eight-year-old girl ended up being taken to hospital by ambulance that evening as she became seriously unwell.

"Maybe you managed to get a good night's sleep?"



Colenso said Yasmin had been cleared as "fit to fly" by her doctor and they had alerted airline staff to her conditions, which also include epilepsy, glaucoma and autism.

The family, including Yasmin's three siblings, had deliberately booked the back seats of the plane to avoid disrupting other passengers.

Colenso told the MailOnline they chose not to retaliate at the time, because they didn't want to make Yasmin more anxious.

But she wanted to raise awareness through her Facebook post so it didn't happen again.

"I have been contacted by hundreds of other parents who say they have had similar ordeals, most of them only recently," she told the MailOnline.

"Many parents have even said they are due to travel soon and really worried about it.

"I just hope that by sharing what we experienced it might make people think before reacting like this."

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