Brit JAILED in Dubai after row with airport staff over wheelchair for mum & handed £2k fine

A BRIT tourist has been jailed in Dubai after a row with airline staff over a wheelchair for his mum.

The traveller was slapped with a £2k fine after using “very bad language” toward an employee earlier this year.

The tourist had gone back to court to appeal the hefty penalty but on November 6.

But then he was handed a three-month prison sentence instead.

The Dubai Court of Appeal heard how he had insulted a member of airline staff after being told they could not immediately bring him a wheelchair to ferry his mother to a shuttlebus last February.

“I saw the traveller repeatedly asking an airport desk employee about the wheelchair and expected that he might have not understood her explanation,” the airport employee said in court.

“When I tried to explain it to him, he insulted me using very bad language.”

In her testimony, an airport desk employee told judges that she was on duty in the transit area of Terminal 2 on the day of the incident.

“The British passenger approached me with inquiries about their flight schedule and to verify their boarding passes,” she said.

She told him that their flight was departing from…