A Covid-19 protester has been ejected from the island’s Tesco store.

A video clip on Twitter shows Martin Houston remonstrating with a manager in the Lake Road store.

Mr Houston was sporting a V for Vendetta mask on which he had scrawled the message ’Covid is a con’.

The video clip shows the store manager telling him: ’I would like you to leave the store as I find your mask highly offensive.’

Tesco confirmed that a customer had been asked to leave the superstore on Saturday due to his behaviour towards staff and other shoppers. When he did not do this immediately, the police were contacted.

Police were called to the store at 4pm on Saturday January 16 but he had left before they arrived. Mr Houston said officers later spoke to him at his home.

Police declined to comment.

The 58-year-old company director and computer consultant denied behaving in an aggressive and intimidatory way - and said he intended to sue Tesco over any suggestion that he had.

Mr Houston said from his home in Port Erin: ’Covid is a scam that needs to be stopped.

’I was halfway through the store with a trolley full of shopping when I was told they wanted me to leave.’

Mr Houston has been distributing leaflets in Port Erin promoting his slot on WBN324 global network.

But he insisted that he wasn’t leafleting in Tesco on Saturday and had only spoken to one customer who told him she liked the message on his mask and he had given her his card.