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Groups in Reading have expressed “huge disappointment” after a mural by street artist Banksy on the side of a former prison was defaced with red paint. The artwork, entitled Create Escape, appeared on the red brick wall of Reading Prison on March 1 and showed an inmate escaping lockdown using a knotted spool of paper from a typewriter. On Tuesday, pictures emerged showing that the piece had been defaced with red paint covering the typewriter, with the phrase “Team Robbo” below. This appears to be a reference to graffiti artist King Robbo, who was in a long-running feud with Banksy bef...

The feud between King Robbo and Banksy reportedly dates back to 1990s. King Robbo claims to have met Banksy in a pub in Old Street, London. The artists says he 'slapped' Banksy after Banksy claimed to have never heard of him.  In 2009, a piece of graffiti art painted by a 15-year-old King Robbo in 1985 was destroyed by Banksy who replaced it with a stencil of a workman pasting wallpaper. The graffiti was under the British Transport Police HQ in London and was considered one of the oldest in the country.  Later that year, Robbo then reclaimed his piece from Banksy's defacing by covering the...

Banksy: what happens when someone vandalises graffiti – and who owns it anyway? Robbie Hiller, 30, from Pangbourne, went down to the prison with washing up liquid and laundry detergent to try and scrub some of the red paint off. This morning, the mural painted by Banksy on the side of Reading Gaol, depicting a prisoner escaping from the gaol using a rope of bed sheets tied to a typewriter, appeared with red paint which reads 'Team Robbo'. Reading Borough Council leader Jason Brock said: “This is obviously hugely disappointing following the initial excitement in Reading recently ...

Create Escape appeared on the wall of the former prison on March 1.

BBC News Published image captionThe words "Team Robbo" have been daubed on the Banksy artwork Street artist Banksy's mural on the walls of a derelict prison has been defaced with red paint. The image of an escaping prisoner - possibly resembling famous inmate Oscar Wilde - appeared on the side of Reading jail on 1 March. It featured a typewriter at the bottom, but this has now been covered up and the words "Team Robbo" appear below. Robbo was a graffiti artist who died in 2014. He had been in a long-running feud with Banksy. image copyrightMatt Adamiak image captionRobbie Hiller said he u...