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Rowdy Teen Abandoned in Portugal

What: Thomson flight en route to Lanzarote
Where: Portugal
Who: disruptive teen
Why: Seventeen year old Lee Doran from London was traveling with his step father to Lanzarote when he got into an altercation.

After he and his stepfather got into a fight, the pilot landed in Portugal, dropping off Doran, half-brother Dylan, stepfather David Laughton, his partner Sarah Wilson, and their son Harry. The family caught the next flight to Lanzarote, leaving Lee at the airport police station. Between the British Embassy and Lee’s mother, he managed to get back home (to London.)

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