Man, 21, 'banned' by easyJet and targeted by cops because of his name

A Cheshire man says he has been banned by easyJet and targeted by police because of his name. University graduate Kieran Harris says the problem has got so bad he's considering changing his name if the problem carries on.

The 21-year-old had booked a flight from Liverpool to Alicante, Spain, in April and was supposed to be flying with easyJet on May 25. But the day before he was due to jet off, Kieran received an email telling him he couldn't board the flight due to 'previous disruptive behaviour'.

He was also told he had been issued a '10-year no-fly sanction' with the airline, which only expired in March 2031. Kieran, from Parkgate near Ellesmere Port, said: "My friend got an email at 6pm the night before the flight, saying they had this ten-year flight ban and I was just removed off the booking.

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"I was gutted. I couldn't quite get my head around it. I wasn't on the booking anymore, I didn't have a seat on the flight, and there was no point in me even going to the airport."

Kieran says the problem is due to easyJet confusing him with another man named Kieran Harris who was sentenced to 12 weeks in prison for behaving aggressively and abusively whilst drunk on a flight in 2021. The trainee auditor says the issue is made worse as the pair also share a birthday.

And it's not just easyJet which he claims has mixed the pair up. Kieran says the Metropolitan Police stormed his house in bulletproof vests last year after misidentifying him as the wrong Kieran Harris.

On another occasion, he claims to have been mistaken for the other bloke after being involved in a collision when cops looked him up on their database. "We've had this previously," he said.

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