Man arrested after statue at BBC headquarters attacked with a hammer
The figures, depicting Prospero and Ariel from Shakespeare’s play The Tempest, were installed in 1933.
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The figures, depicting Prospero and Ariel from Shakespeare’s play The Tempest, were installed in 1933.
British police on Wednesday cordoned off an area outside the BBC's Broadcasting House in central London after a man was spotted scaling the building and using a hammer to attack a statue by controversial sculptor Eric Gill.
A protester who used a hammer to attack a statue by known paedophile Eric Gill on the outside of the BBC's Broadcasting House is a notorious Fathers 4 Justice campaigner.
A protester armed with a hammer has scaled BBC Broadcasting House near Oxford Circus and destroyed a sculpture by Eric Gill
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