Police chief reported for bin Laden costume

A senior policeman who dressed as Osama bin Laden at a carnival, days before the seventh anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks has been reported to the police watchdog.

Chief Superintendent Colin Terry, who has trained police in Afghanistan, was photographed wearing a lifelike bin Laden mask, robes and traditional Arab scarf.

He wore the costume at a carnival and parade in the village of Grampound, Cornwall, on Saturday.