9/11 families' fury after two British students WIN fancy dress competition wearing TWIN TOWERS outfits (and one of them is daughter of pilot who flew in US on day of terror attacks)

Amber Langford and Annie Collinge, 19, dressed as World Trade Center

Costumes showed blazing towers and victims jumping from windows

They won a £150 prize for 'best dressed' at Halloween club night in Chester



Miss Langford's father Martin was a pilot who used to work in America



Mother of British 9/11 victim says: 'It's hard to understand'

Two female students have outraged the families of 9/11 victims by entering a nightclub fancy dress competition dressed as the Twin Towers being hit by planes.

Amber Langford and Annie Collinge, both 19, won the contest and a £150 prize at a Chester nightclub despite lampooning the worst terrorist attack in modern history.

Today, families of those who lost loved ones in the New York terror attack said that they found the costumes distressing.



Patricia Bingley, 79, whose 43-year-old son Kevin Dennis died in the atrocity said: 'It's hard to understand where they've come from to do this.'

Mr Dennis was working as a bond trader on the 101st floor of the North Tower when a plane struck the skyscraper on September 11, 2001.



Fury: Amber Langford, left, and Annie Collinge, right, won a fancy dress contest dressed as the Twin Towers Stunt: Amber Langford and Annie Collinge during the party at Rosies nightclub on October 31 Their actions have also enraged Miss Langford's father Martin, a pilot who was working in the US for United Express on the day Al Qaeda brought down the World Trade Center and killed 2,996 people, including 67 Britons.

'I didn't know anything about it, but I'm not happy at all,' the retired pilot, who now lives in Anglesey, told The Sun.

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



Miss Langford, who is studying biology at the University of Chester, and Miss Collinge, a criminology student, wore the outfits to a Halloween event at Rosies nightclub last Thursday evening.



Tasteless: Annie Collinge took this picture of herself as she was getting ready for the party

They had modelled their costumes on the North and South Tower wreathed in flames and with victims jumping from windows. Both women also wore hats topped with the wreckage of the planes and U.S. flags.

The widow of a 9/11 victim living near Chester said she was 'angry and disgusted' at the girls' outfit and suggested that they were ignorant about the true horror of the terror attack.



Liz Gilligan, whose husband Ron was working in the World Trade Center at the time of the atrocity, told the Chester Chronicle: 'I can't begin to tell you how angry and disgusted I am.



'These girls and Rosie’s need to be made aware that 9/11 was very real and while it was 3,000 miles away, it affected people on their doorstep.'



Some clubbers were so disgusted that they tried to complain to management.



'I was completely outraged,' said 20-year-old George Borsberry. '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.'

Others took to the club's Facebook page to vent their anger about the decision to give the teenagers a prize for their outfits.



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



Millie Robinson tweeted: 'Can not actually believe that some people went as the Twin Towers blowing up on Halloween.'

Outrage: Relatives of 9/11 victims have spoken of their anger at seeing the teenagers' costumes