Retired police officer’s dream cruise RUINED after travel agent said he was a TERRORIST

After making the trip to the embassy offices, which was paid for by Cresta World Travel, Mr McGarry was issued with a VISA.

Mr McGarry who was an officer with Greater Manchester Police for 30 years, said: “I was put through going to London at 6’o’clock in the morning, getting fingerprinted, interviewed numerous times. 

“That’s when they put the questions to me and said, ‘you shouldn’t be here, you have had a raw deal, but don’t blame us’. 

“It’s nothing to do with them, they are doing their job. I was a cop and if I saw something in front of me, I had to do my job. 

“The embassy acted on it information from Cresta.” 

But the questioning didn’t stop there because when he finally arrived in New York, a week into the 26-day cruise, he was escorted off and given another grilling because of his “terror” links in front of fellow passengers.

The officers questioned him and finally let him go after speaking to the embassy – but Mr McGarry said the damage had already been done. 

He was humiliated further by being marched back to the cruise ship by officers. 

The ordeal was made worse by fellow passengers who shunned him for the rest of the trip.

He said the friends he had made on the cruise ostracised him because of his dealings with the authorities and he was isolated for the remaining 19 days of his cruise.