This is the astonishing moment a baggage handler is caught opening a suitcase and pocketing a speaker.

A passenger on a Ryanair flight from Ibiza to Madrid filmed the thief in action before alerting an air steward.

Police got the man to confess before returning the stolen item back to its owner - a teenage boy travelling to the Spanish capital with his mum.

The baggage handler - who is now facing trial and had only started his job three days earlier - is thought to have been sacked.

The baggage handler unzips the case on a trolley in footage taken at an airport in Ibiza, Spain

Footage of his theft - published by island paper Diario de Ibiza - showed him opening the case on a luggage trolley.

He is seen rooting around inside with one hand and then pulling out the red speaker which was tucked inside.

The man makes sure to bury the speaker in his left trouser pocket and zips it up to hide his theft.

The extraordinary incident happened on Friday morning.

The woman who had bought it for her son told Diario de Ibiza: 'The police told me it was the third day the man had been working at the airport and returned the speaker to me immediately.

'I was very grateful because I had bought it for my son's birthday.'

Last summer a baggage handler at Ibiza airport was filmed throwing passengers' suitcases around.

He hurled a pushchair across the tarmac before driving off with one bag stuck under the wheels of his truck.

Footage shows the man fumbling around in the suitcase to pull out the red speaker

The thief takes out the speaker and makes sure to bury it in his left trouser pocket