A hospital consultant was grounded after he refused to go through a ‘naked’ X-ray scanner at an airport, claiming it could give him cancer.

Tony Aguirre expected to be offered a traditional ‘pat-down’ search instead.

But he was not allowed to board the plane from Manchester to Zurich and was escorted out of the airport by police.

Mr Aguirre, an eye specialist at Huddersfield Royal Infirmary, said he was treated like a criminal because he was not prepared to accept a ‘radiation assault’.