Originally Posted by
Howard Long
This happened to me at FRA, laptop went missing. Turned out another pax had picked up my laptop but left their own. Thankfully they returned to the security point fifteen minutes later having realised their mistake..
Slightly different scenario. In one a traveller made a genuine mistake and left their own laptop behind.
The post you were responding to was (like the OP) implying criminal intent to steal.
In a different scenario still I took a laptop out to Dubai this week for a member of a Facebook group who left it behind at LGW having got flustered at a full bag search. It was handed in to lost property.
Unless the OP has a bit more to substantiate the allegations it's probably best to move on.