A pink Bugs Bunny water pistol, right, in a six-year-old girl’s luggage sparked a security scare when she tried to board a flight to Britain from Cape Town.
Kelly Vinnicombe and her mother Sarah, 34, were questioned for an hour, forced to register the toy as a firearm and have it checked by experts — who discovered that it contained sweets.
Ms Vinnicombe, from Plymouth, Devon, bought the £2.50 toy at the airport as she returned from holiday with Kelly and sister Bethany, 8.