A Ryanair passenger was shocked to find a baggage handler pocketing an expensive item from a suitcase - and got it all on film.

The passenger was on the budget airline flight to Ibiza when the thief was seen unzipping the case and pocketing a speaker.

An air steward was then alerted and the police were called.

Luckily, officers managed to get the man to confess before returning the stolen item back to its rightful owner - a teenage boy travelling to Madrid with his mum, Mirror Online reports.

The baggage handler, who worked for the airport rather than the airline, is now facing trial.

The baggage handler is understood to have been given the sack following the incident

It has since been revealed that he only started his job three days earlier.

It is understood he has been given the sack following the incident.

Island paper Diario de Ibiza published footage of his crime, which showed the perpetrator opening the case on the luggage trolley before rooting around inside with one hand and then putting the red speaker in his left trouser pocket.

The extraordinary incident happened on Friday morning (September 14).

The woman who had bought it for her son told Diario de Ibiza: "The police told me it was the third day the man had been working at the airport and returned the speaker to me immediately.

"I was very grateful because I had bought it for my son’s birthday."

He is filmed unzipping the case while it is on the loading trolley

Shocking footage last month showed a baggage handler throwing passengers’ suitcases around like they were footballs.

He was heckled by holiday-makers who from the plane saw him throwing suitcases several feet up in the air and onto a truck.

The staffer also hurled a pushchair across the tarmac before driving off with one bag stuck under the wheels of his truck.

One onlooker, American Sarah Dodge said: “People spend 130 dollars on a decent suitcase and after this it is scuffed up, the frame bent and the telescoping handle now jammed and won’t work.

“That man needs out of a job."