Van Gogh killer ‘honoured to be compared to bin Laden’

Mohammed Bouyeri, the convicted murderer of Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, told prosecutors today that comparing him to Osama bin Laden was “too much honour” for him. Bouyeri, 27, who is already serving a life sentence for Van Gogh’s murder in November 2004, is on trial again on charges of leading a terrorist organisation. “Comparing me to Osama bin Laden wrongs him and is too much honour for me,” Bouyeri said as he started presenting his own defence. Bouyeri says he carried out the murder alone because he believed that Van Gogh had insulted Islam in a film criticising the