A DISGUSTED grandfather from Nelson is demanding a controversial exhibition of dead body parts is shutdown.

Michael Leeper, 43, his daughter Samantha, 21, and his five-year-old granddaughter Kiara, visited the Bodies Revealed exhibition in Blackpool last week.

And the production operative, who starts work at Express Gifts, Accrington, on Monday, said he was physically sick when he saw the exhibition which features full dissected bodies, plus hundreds of organs.

He said they paid £26 to visit the exhibition because they were intrigued to know what it was about, but they were not warned of its content and were allowed to take Kiara in with them.

He said: "I want to close it down. We did not know anything about it and took the little one.

"I was disgusted at what I saw. There were unborn babies in bottles, which in my eyes is murder.

"This place should be closed down. I was very upset and physically sick.

"It was like something out of a horror movie."

Following their visit, Mr Leeper, of Smith Street, wrote to the exhibition expressing his concerns and demanding it be closed.

Bodies Revealed, organised by American-based Titanic Inc opened at the Winter Gardens in August and will run until November 14 before touring the world.

When it opened it caused uproar with the the Rev Michael Manley, of Blackpool's St John's Church calling "degrading and sensationalist".

All the exhibits on show came from people who chose to donate their body's to medical science.

Alistair Clarke, a spokesman for the exhibition said thousands of people, including school groups had attended the event but this was the first complaint they had received.

He also added that the foetuses on display were in a separate room which visitors have to make a conscious decision to enter.

He added: "There are signs up at the entrance saying any child under the age of 14 has to be accompanied by an adult, therefore it is the judgement of the adult as to whether they should take a child."