Psychologist and former NBA star, who is black, was told he was too big for security scanners
The psychologist and ex-basketball player John Amaechi said he was left feeling furious and humiliated after being privately searched at Heathrow airport, having been told he was too big for the security scanners.
Amaechi said he had the invasive search after first being “randomly selected” by a beep from a security arch. Staff blamed his height when he was flagged by a second scanner in the first-class security queue at Terminal 5.
