'Suicide bomb' protester arrested

utv: The man who dressed as a suicide bomber during protests against the Mohammed cartoons was today arrested and taken to prison, police said.

Omar Khayam, 22, was pictured outside Denmark's embassy in London wearing a simulated suicide bombing outfit to denounce the cartoons, first published in a Danish paper, satirising the prophet Mohammed.

The student was given six years in prison in 2002 for possessing crack cocaine with intent to supply and is still on licence after being released last year halfway through his sentence.

A Bedfordshire Police spokesman said Khayam was arrested this morning under the Criminal Justice Act 2003 and was being conveyed to prison. Read more