He said: “I just don’t understand it. We paid for the three seats, she went to the airport, and she was told that she can’t get on the flight because she didn’t have a visa.
“Rebecca organised everything and she may have been told before she left the house (that Ms McCulloch would be unable to board the flight), but she thought she would just go and try because she wanted to go with the kids, but she was told categorically, no.”
As of last month, there were thought to be between 4,000 and 6,000 UK nationals including dependants, in Lebanon.
“More than 250 UK citizens have already left on chartered flights. As of Friday morning, more than 2,000 British nationals had registered their presence in the country, the Foreign Office said.”
The UK government is chartering another flight for Britons to leave on Sunday, the fourth such flight organised since the escalation of the conflict in Lebanon.
