The Prospero and Ariel statue outside the BBC building in central London was vandalized on Wednesday by a man shouting "pedophile" - in reference to sculptor Eric Gill.
On display since 1993, it portrays a naked child-looking spirit from Shakespeare’s ‘The Tempest’. Police were called to the scene and the man was brought down after four hours.
For several years there has been a campaign to remove the statue, after Gill was found to be sexually abusing his daughters and a dog.
The Prospero and Ariel statue outside the BBC building in central London was vandalized on Wednesday by a man shouting "pedophile" - in reference to sculptor Eric Gill.
On display since 1993, it portrays a naked child-looking spirit from Shakespeare’s ‘The Tempest’. Police were called to the scene and the man was brought down after four hours.
For several years there has been a campaign to remove the statue, after Gill was found to be sexually abusing his daughters and a dog.
'that's not a child, it's a child-looking spirit'
you'd think they sculptor raping his own children and a DOG would have driven the BBC to take it down, but there it is, almost 20 years.
It's their alter.