Fury after students win fancy dress competition dressed as flaming Twin Towers

Amber Langford and Annie Collinge, both 19, scooped £150 despite mocking the 9/11 terror attacks compete with model planes and figures falling to their deaths

Sick: The girls dressed at the flaming Twin Towers

Two females students have sparked fury after entering a fancy dress competition dressed as the Twin Towers under attack.

Amber Langford and Annie Collinge, both 19, scooped £150 after winning the contest despite mocking the 9/11 terror attacks.

Their costumes - marked North Tower and South Tower - included models of the two hijacked planes crashing into the New York skyscrapers.

The sick outfits also had tiny figures falling to their deaths and were topped off with the women wearing smouldering Stars and Stripes flags on their heads.

The pair were awarded £150 in shopping vouchers after coming first in the Halloween fancy dress contest at Rosie's nightclub in Chester.

Amber's dad Martin Langford - a pilot who was flying jets in the US when al-Qaeda attacked the World Trade Center in 2001 - has vowed to "have a little chat" with his daughter.

SWNS Partygoers Amber Langford and Annie Collinge, both 19, mocked the 9/11
terror attacks, where more than 2,700 people lost their lives
Fury: The girls have since apologised for their actions

The retired airman, 52, told the Sun: "I didn't know anything about it, but I'm not happy about it.

"She knows I'm a pilot and that's not cool at all. We will be having a little chat, I think."

Mr Langford's privately-educated daughter, a biology student at the University of Chester, donned the matching costume with pal Annie, a criminology student.

They grinned and waved as they paraded their outfits in front of hundreds of partygoers on October 31.

But some of the crowd booed the award and others vented their anger on social media sites, including the club's own Facebook page.

Ashley Goodall wrote: "Low! That's not even Halloween that's just a very bad joke, not like you'd walk around American like that."

Andy Burns said: "That's a bit too far that is", Andy Tibbett described it as '"Ignorant" and Chris Alliston said "Rats."

Millie Robinson tweeted: "Can not actually believe that someone people went as the twin towers blowing up on halloween man."

Getty World Trade Center
Tragedy: The pair mocked the 9/11 terror attacks

Disgusted clubber George Borsberry, 20, said: "Rosie's approve of the 9/11 killings, and gave someone £150 pounds for mocking the victims.

"Never seen such disgusting behaviour by anyone." George, a mechanical engineer, added yesterday: "I was completely outraged.

"Not only were they labelled the "best dressed", but they were also given £150 to dress up in this way and mock the victims and the families of the victims.

"We asked to see the manager to complain and was turned down due to him being "too busy" to see us.

"After waiting two and a half hours to see the person who decided this dreadful winner all we got was 'sorry but it was a good costume'.

"He then had the audacity to say there were people in other disgusting costumes such as Jimmy Savile, as if to justify that it was alright to dress like that."

George, from Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, added: "Where can the line be drawn?

"I might dress up as Hitler next year, or a depiction of a gas chamber with loads of dead Jews coming out of it, or something resembling the bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945, killing over 66,000 people.

"To find a depiction of people dying and falling from the buildings funny, and to reward it with money, for me is an absolute disgrace and completely disrespectful on every level.

"I've been going to this nightclub for a number of years, but never in my life have I seen something treated with such disrespect and complete ignorance."

SWNS Annie Collinge, aged 19, mocked the 9/11 terror attacks, where more than 2,700 people lost their lives
Apology: Student Annie Collinge said she did not mean to offend anyone

The girls have since apologised for their actions:

The pair told the Sun: "We never meant to be offensive, but we apologise if any offence was caused.

"The idea was to depict a modern-day horror that happened in our lifetime and was not intended as a joke."

The University of Chester and Chester Students' Union said in a statement: "We utterly condemn the appalling photos.

"Both organisations have begun and urgent investigation with a view to taking the necessary action."

Rosies is owned by the Stonegate Pub Company which runs 540 pubs, bars and clubs across the UK, including well-known chains such as Yates's and Slug and Lettuce.

A company spokesman said: "We are extremely concerned that an award of vouchers was made to two young women who were dressed in a distasteful and offensive manner.

"There was a serious error of judgement made on the evening by a contracted DJ to award such a prize and we apologise to anybody who may have been upset or offended by this.

"A full investigation by the company is taking place."

See more ill-advised fancy dress costumes here - from a zombie Jimmy Savile to Osama Bin Laden.


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