A British journalist has smuggled a syringe on a plane flying from Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport to London Heathrow, the Sunday Express reported at the weekend.

The paper says Stuart Clarke passed through security at Schiphol with the syringe containing fluid in his jacket pocket and no-one noticed.
The paper’s investigation came just five days after Nigerian Umar Abdulmutallab tried to blow up a plane flying from Schiphol to Detroit using explosives strapped to his leg and a detonator in a syringe. He was overpowered by passengers.
‘Schiphol appeared to have imposed no additional security such as precautionary pat-downs which could easily have discovered the syringe,’ the paper said. Clarke is a diabetic and does have the relevant paperwork to allow him to travel with a syringe full of liquid, the paper said.
British MP Patrick Mercer, who chairs parliament’s counter terrorism sub-committee, told the Sunday Express the security lapse was ‘frightening’ and demanded answers from Schiphol.
Last week, home affairs minister Guusje ter Horst said full body scans would be introduced to all flights to the US within three weeks and that security elsewhere had been tightened up.