An 11-year-old boy was excluded from his school's World Book Day event after he dressed as a character from Fifty Shades of Grey.
Liam Scholes was told he was not welcome at the event at Sale High School in Greater Manchester after turning up as the character Christian Grey.
The school was taking part in a national event day where children were encouraged to dress up as famous literary characters from books.
"He went in a suit and shoes and with an eye mask and cable ties," Ms Scholes told the Manchester Evening News.
"The cable ties were tiny and not enough to do anything with them.
"If it was a primary school I could understand but it’s a secondary school and the book and the film have been everywhere - it’s one of the most famous books in recent years and it’s not like the pupils will be unaware of it."
Ms Scholes claimed one of the teachers arrived dressed as the homicidal serial killer Dexter Morgan from the Jeff Lindsay novel Darkly Dreaming Dexter.
"I don’t see why sex is seen as more offensive than murder," she said. "He went as a book character and it didn't say in the rules that the children had to have read the book.
"The school wanted him to change his character to James Bond; ironically a very promiscuous character who kills people - so I don't know which is worse."
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