A man who dressed as a suicide bomber during protests against the Muhammad cartoons in London has been arrested
Omar Khayam speaking to media yesterday
Bedfordshire Police said Omar Khayam had been detained.
Yesterday Mr Khayam, from Bedford, apologised "wholeheartedly" for his behaviour in the London protests, saying it was "wrong, unjustified and insensitive" to dress as a suicide bomber.
The student had been pictured outside Denmark's embassy wearing a simulated suicide bombing outfit to denounce the cartoons first pictured in a Danish paper satirising the Prophet Muhammad.
It emerged yesterday that Khayam (22) had served a prison sentence for drug dealing. He was sentenced to six years in prison in 2002 for possessing crack cocaine with intent to supply, according to newspaper reports.
Although he was released on parole last year after serving half his sentence, he is still on licence.
