A terrified mother was held at gunpoint by anti-terror police as she returned to retrieve her daughter's toys that had accidentally been left on board a plane.
Emma Goldman, 45, a teacher at an exclusive private school, was surrounded by armed detectives at Gatwick Airport after she went back to the aircraft she had left just minutes before with her eight-year-old daughter Harriet.
Anti-terrorist officers rushed into action after the single mother mistakenly broke three emergency glass door seals and tripped security alarms.
Ms Goldman, an English teacher and head of the PTA at the exclusive
Royal School Hampstead in Rosslyn Hill, north London, was put into
a padded cell and later taken to court.
She said: 'I really have been left shell-shocked and very scared.
'I can't stop having nightmares about the cell and I can't help thinking about what could have happened to me.'
Ms Goldman, of Hampstead, said that just before reaching passport control, Harriet realised she had left her bag of glass figurines from Venice on the plane.
'We were just five minutes off the plane and there had been people coming off behind us so I just had the impulse to run back,' Ms Goldman said.
