Britain Today.

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After a certain group of youngsters were found not guilty for destroying and dumping a statue of Edward Colston into
Bristol harbour, a chap took it upon himself to attempt to rid the front of the BBC offices of a statue of Prospero and
Ariel by sculptor Eric Gill.

Colston was deemed a racist by some and Gill -the sculptor, was deemed a peadophile due to his diaries explaining
that he sexual abused his daughters, his sisters and the family dog. So it'll be interesting how the trial of the hammer
-swinger will pan out.

Man takes hammer to BBC headquarters to smash statue by paedophile sculptor

'A man who climbed up onto the BBC’s London headquarters in an alleged attempt to damage a statue
by the artist Eric Gill has been arrested. The statue, which depicts Prospero and Ariel from Shakespeare’s
play The Tempest, was created in the 1930s by Eric Gill, who is said to have sexually assaulted his two daughters.



Gill’s abuse came to light in the 1980s, following the publication of an autobiography that used evidence from the
artist’s private diaries. Since then, the statue has proved controversial and there have been many calls for it to be
removed.

Metropolitan Police officers were called at around 4.15pm on Wednesday, to Broadcasting House in Portland Street,
following reports a man had used a ladder to reach the 10ft tall figures above the building’s entrance.
The area was cordoned off, and London Ambulance Service paramedics attended the scene.

In footage of the incident shared online, a man could be seen repeatedly hitting the leg of the smaller figure of two which
make up the statue. Shards of the statue and dust could be seen falling from the BBC building as the man continued to
hammer away at the statue of Ariel and Prospero
Two men were seen trying to negotiate with him while he periodically stopped hammering to take a break...'

Metro: