Sinking of Bin Laden: Boat named as a joke is stopped by MOD & UK police on the Thames for being a 'security risk to Olympics

Sinking of Bin Laden: Boat named as a joke is stopped by police on the Thames for being a 'security risk to Olympics

By Rosie Taylor and Sam Greenhill

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When his young sons wanted to give the family boat a ‘silly name’, Laurence Godfrey was happy to let children be children.

So the 13ft motorboat was proudly hand-painted with the name ‘Bin Laden 1’ by his son Dylan, then aged 11. He had heard the name on TV and thought it was funny.

But the boat named as a joke after the Al Qaeda leader has suddenly attracted the attention of police and the Ministry of Defence.

When his young sons wanted to give the family boat a 'silly name', Laurence Godfrey, from Herts, was happy to let children be children

When his young sons wanted to give the family boat a 'silly name', Laurence Godfrey, from Herts, was happy to let children be children - and Dylan, then 11, christened it 'Bin Laden'

The 13ft motorboat was stopped by police after landing at Greenwich Yacht Club following a trip on the Thames last weekend

The 13ft motorboat was stopped by police after landing at Greenwich Yacht Club following a trip on the Thames last weekend. Dr Godfrey is pictured with his six-year-old son Waylan

Dr Godfrey says he has been told he must change the name because it could allegedly cause a threat to security at the Olympics.

Despite the family using it for two years without complaint, they were stopped by police after landing at Greenwich Yacht Club following a trip on the Thames last weekend.

Physicist Dr Godfrey had taken his son Waylan, six, Dylan, now 13, and Dylan’s 13-year-old schoolfriend along the river to see Tower Bridge.

He was surprised to see a police boat with lights flashing pull up at the yacht club as they put Bin Laden 1 on to a trailer.


Dr Godfrey told the Met: 'Do you seriously think a terrorist would paint Bin Laden on the side of his boat?'

Dr Godfrey told the Met: 'Do you seriously think a terrorist would paint Bin Laden on the side of his boat?'

Dr Godfrey, 59, said officers told him they had been alerted by the Ministry of Defence and warned him to change the boat’s name ‘before the Olympics’.

‘Until they started shouting at me I assumed [the police boat] was nothing to do with me,’ he said.

‘One of the officers said, “Stay where you are!” It frightened the life out of the children.

‘The first question they asked me was, “Why did you call the boat Bin Laden?” I said, “That’s its name”. When they asked me why, I said, “You better ask my children because that’s who named it”.’

Dr Godfrey claimed officers told him he ‘could not call his boat Bin Laden’ and would have to change the name ‘for Olympic security’.

He said: ‘Do you seriously think a terrorist would paint Bin Laden on the side of his boat? They made it clear if I went out again without changing the name I would be stopped again. It was thoroughly unpleasant.

‘I believe I’m entitled to any name, unless it is offensive or has HMS in front of it. I must have been past 500 police vessels on the Thames in the past few years. It has never offended any one of them.’

Dr Godfrey, from Hertfordshire, added that calling the boat Bin Laden ‘was silly and childish – but they are children, so that is hardly surprising’.

The MoD confirmed that a member of staff had alerted police.

A Met Police spokesman said: ‘Officers spoke to the owner. No crime was recorded and there were no arrests. The name of the boat is entirely a matter for the owner and we can only give words of advice.’

A police source added: ‘It may be that not everybody will share his sense of humour.’

Physicist Dr Godfrey had taken his son Waylan, six, Dylan, now 13, and Dylan's 13-year-old schoolfriend along the river to see Tower Bridge (file photo)

Physicist Dr Godfrey had taken his son Waylan, six, Dylan, now 13, and Dylan's 13-year-old schoolfriend along the river to see Tower Bridge (file photo)

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