Warning: This story contains video that some may find distressing Two women locked a crying toddler in a plane’s bathroom to stop her disturbing other passengers on a Chinese domestic flight. The child’s grandmother gave permission for the strangers to lecture the little girl in the locked lavatory in the hope her behaviour would improve. Online footage of the incident provoked a backlash in China with the two passengers accused of bullying the confused toddler.

But Gou Tingting, one of the women involved, defended her actions, saying she was trying to help the rest of the passengers on the flight, who were disturbed by the child’s noise..