{"id":747152,"date":"2022-01-13T01:48:01","date_gmt":"2022-01-13T01:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/13\/man-arrested-for-allegedly-defacing-statue-in-at-bbc-headquarters\/"},"modified":"2022-01-13T01:48:01","modified_gmt":"2022-01-13T01:48:01","slug":"man-arrested-for-allegedly-defacing-statue-in-at-bbc-headquarters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/13\/man-arrested-for-allegedly-defacing-statue-in-at-bbc-headquarters\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested for allegedly defacing statue in at BBC headquarters"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Jan. 12 (UPI) —<\/span> A man was arrested in Central London on Wednesday after allegedly using a hammer to vandalize a statue in front of the headquarters of the BBC.<\/p>\n

Officers were called shortly after 4 p.m. and quickly cordoned off the area, and the man eventually came down with the help of fire crews, according to the BBC.\n<\/p>\n

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The whole incident lasted around 4 hours.<\/p>\n

“The property owners are examining any damage to the statue and building,” said a police spokesperson, according to The Independent.<\/p>\n

The man was apparently lashing out at the sculptor of the statue.<\/p>\n

Staff at the BBC said they heard him yelling “pedophile” while attempting to deface it.\n<\/p>\n

The statue was carved by Eric Gill and installed in 1933 outside the BBC headquarters.<\/p>\n

It was later discovered in his diaries that Gill, who died in 1940, had written about sexually abusing his daughters.<\/p>\n

The public has campaigned for several years to have the Prospero and Ariel statue removed. It depicts the two aforementioned characters from Shakespeare’s play The Tempest<\/i>.\n<\/p>\n

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The BBC did not comment but did report a second man was also arrested nearby on suspicion of conspiracy to commit a criminal charge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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