7am: Sky News in the UK ran a still photo from a Pakistan news agency allegedly showing the swollen and bloody face of the dead Osama Bin Laden but have withdrawn it from air due to viewer complaints.
– The BBC have refused to show the image.
7.30am: – A few US blogs have the picture online now including: The Last Refuge
8am: – Most UK paper home pages now running the photo.
– The Daily Mail runs the photo credited EPA: dailymail.co.uk
UPDATED 3 May: PAN reader, Photographer David Hoffman sent us this: ” This is an old fake! If you do a Tineye on it you’ll find it in 2010 and maybe (I forget) 2009 as well as the original it was taken from, see this compare mouth expressions”: https://i.imgur.com/1DYgC.jpg