ASHLEY Cole has caused a double stink by giving a gangster "salute" and leaving piles of filth outside his holiday mansion.

Footballer Ashley Cole was snapped at his £5,000-a-month Los Angeles pad flicking the "Westside" gesture.

And now gun campaigners are threatening to picket Chelsea's Stamford Bridge ground unless he apologises for making the notorious three-fingered sign.

Mothers Against Guns founder Lucy Cope, 56, lost her son Damian, 22, in 2002 when he was shot outside a nightclub.

She said: "I want to see an apology within 24 hours or we will demonstrate outside Chelsea Football Club.

"We won't let him get away with this. My son was a Chelsea fan at the time of his death.

"Ashley should apologise to all those young people who look up to him as a source of inspiration."

Love-rat Cole gave the salute while posing outside the million pad with pals Shaun Wright-Phillips, 29, and New York hip-hop artist Jim Jones, 34.

It was a favourite of rapper Tupac Shakur, known as 2Pac, who was shot dead in gang violence in 1996.

Last night Cole's spokesman claimed: "Ashley has no idea what a gangster sign would look like.

"This is a peace sign, he does it in all his photos."

The row blew up as new pictures emerged showing the mountains of trash Cole and Manchester City star Wright-Phillips have piled up during their raucous lads' break.

Furious neighbours have described the place as looking like a "pig-sty".

Bins outside the property, two doors from one owned by Hollywood star Sharon Stone, 53, were overflowing with Heineken bottles, crisp bags and greasy KFC wrappers.

Another holiday guest, Manchester chauffeur boss Curtis Codrington, has been updating the world about their wild partying via Twitter.

In one message he Tweeted to followers: "Jim Jones in the house we having a blast in LA."

And in another update he said: "Bottles till u drop LA wooo.

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