Photos showing the moment a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings was captured have been released by a police photographer angry at a magazine cover "glamorising" the alleged attacker.
Sgt Sean Murphy took the pictures of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev as the 19-year-old crawled out from beneath the cover of a boat four days after the blasts.
One of the photos shows him with a bloodied face and hand, with the red dot of a sniper's rifle laser sight on his forehead.
Sgt Murphy released the image after a portrait of Tsarnaev appeared on the front of Rolling Stone magazine .
The photographer claims his pictures, which were published in Boston Magazine , show the "real Boston bomber, not someone fluffed and buffed".
"The truth is that glamorising the face of terror is not just insulting to the family members of those killed in the line of duty, it also could be an incentive to those who may be unstable to do something to get their face on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine," he told the publication.
A state police spokesman said Sgt Murphy was not authorised to release the photographs.
He said the images would not be handed out to other media organisations.
Three people died and hundreds more were injured when two pressure cooker bombs exploded close to the finish line of the Boston Marathon in April.
Earlier this month, Tsarnaev pleaded not guilty to 30 charges , including the use of weapons of mass destruction.
His brother Tamerlan, who allegedly helped commit the attack, died during the manhunt for the pair.
Meanwhile, the editors of Rolling Stone added a statement to the online version of their article about Tsarnaev in which they said: "Our hearts go out to the victims of the Boston Marathon bombings and our thoughts are always with them and their families.
"The cover story we are publishing this week falls within the traditions of journalism and Rolling Stone's long-standing commitment to serious and thoughtful coverage of the most important political and cultural issues of our day.
"The fact that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is young, and in the same age group as many of our readers, makes it all the more important for us to examine the complexities of this issue and gain a more complete understanding of how a tragedy like this happens."
Source: Sky News.
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