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The Austrian tourists who say they were forced by police to delete images of London buses amid terrorism fears have received help from the UK to recover their lost pictures.<\/p>\n

Klaus Matzka and his son (pictured) were left in shock when police demanded they stopped taking pictures of London buses and delete all such images immediately. <\/p>\n

Klaus, from Vienna, said police told him it was ‘strictly forbidden’ to take pictures of anything transport related. <\/p>\n

Special image recovery software is available to salvage photos which have been accidentally deleted from memory cards.<\/p>\n

Speaking this morning Klaus told Amateur Photographer<\/em> (AP): ‘I have had an enormous response, including one from your country with an invitation to recover my deleted pictures for free. Unfortunately, I had re-used my memory card in the meantime.’<\/p>\n

However, AP technical writer Barney Britton said it may still be possible to recover some previously deleted image files on a re-used card, provided that not all the data has been overwritten with new pictures. ‘It should still be possible to recover a handful of images,’ he said.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, UK-based amateur photographer John Kelly, who was involved in a similar incident<\/a> in Blackpool last year, urged Klaus to take the matter up with his MEP.<\/p>\n

‘It looks like it is becoming a police state,’ John told AP this morning.<\/p>\n

‘I feel sorry for Klaus, especially as he was with his son when it happened.’<\/p>\n

Asked what further steps he plans to take over the matter, following widespread coverage in the British media, Klaus added: ‘After writing a letter to The Guardian<\/em>, which was published within an article yesterday, I think that’s enough for the moment.’<\/p>\n

This morning Klaus had a call from a national UK television news network, which plans to set up an interview later today.<\/p>\n

Klaus thanked the media for highlighting his case which he hopes will help prevent similar incidents in future.<\/p>\n

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