QUARANTINE BUST
Moment officers batter down door & arrest man who fled from hotel isolation hours after his return to UK from Bahrain
Updated: 15 Apr 2021, 9:12
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THIS is the moment police battered down a door and arrested a man who fled from hotel isolation hours after returning from Bahrain to the UK.
Mathew Owens, 30, from Liverpool, flew back from the Middle East, where he works as a football coach, on April 9.
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Merseyside Police officers were seen battering down a door to arrest a man who fled from hotel isolationCredit: Facebook/Andrea Owens
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Matthew Owens, 30, was arrested and taken back to a quarantine hotel in LiverpoolCredit: Facebook/Andrea Owens
MailOnline understands that complicated cases are taking 40 minutes rather than the expected four minutes
Only half of desks can be used in passport control at Heathrow because they only have front-facing screens
Heathrow chief solutions officer Chris Garton said the situation at the west London airport was untenable
Passengers are regularly waiting between two and six hours to get tested, he told MPs at a select committee
Mr Garton said the Home Office has not increased the number of border staff checking arrivals to Heathrow
Bosses of Heathrow Airport, British Airways and Jet2 expressed dismay at the completely avoidable queues
They called on Home Secretary to boost border guard numbers as there are often hardly any desks manned
The wider use of electronic passport gates would ensure hassle-free holidays once foreign travel resumes
It comes after a senior Heathrow official told MPs how more than half of arrivals are waiting two or three hours
One woman collapsed at a Heathrow passport control desk after waiting up to seven hours for her paperwork
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