Cinema-goers sitting down to watch the new Batman film watched in horror as an assistant strolled in wearing a gas mask just like the suspect on the Colorado gun massacre.
Schoolteacher Elizabeth Atkinson, 24, was in Worcester's Vue cinema with brothers James, 27, and Leo, 19, and said they were "appalled and sickened" by the publicity stunt.
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