Passport officers are investigating after a man from Salford was left looking like Hitler in his passport photo.

Stuart Boyd, 50, was distraught after opening his newly arrived passport to find he looked a dead ringer for the Nazi leader.

Mr Boyd had ordered his passport on May 22 after booking a holiday to the Greek island of Rhodes in July with friends.

The document arrived exactly one week later, but he was dismayed to find his reproduced photograph made it look like he had a menacing toothbrush moustache.

Stuart who works in public transport, said:

I was really angry when I saw it. I was distraught, really. I just thought, ‘Oh, for God’s sake, I have to have this for 10 years and they can’t even get it right. I wasn’t really sure of the process of how to change it so I posted a picture of it on Facebook.” Stuart Boyd

Friends were quick to stick the boot in.

One friend, Ruth Armstrong Carooppunnen, posted on Stuart’s Facebook page: “That is Heil-arious!”

Another friend, Glenn Hughes, commented: “What’s the problem? It looks al-Reich to me.”

Not seeing the funny side, Stuart phoned his sister Angie to sound off. He said: “She just started laughing, she said to me, ‘oh come on, you’ve got to see the funny side,’ then I did see the funny side.

“My friends and colleagues think it’s hilarious.”

After explaining the issue to the Passport Office, he was contacted first thing on Bank Holiday Monday.

He continued: “To be fair the woman was very pleasant and helpful. She said they obviously didn’t intentionally make me look like Adolf Hitler and told me to send it back so they can issue a new one.”

A spokesman for Her Majesty’s Passport Office said: “All UK passports are carefully created and checked to exacting standards before they are issued.

“We will be contacting him to investigate this case further.”