Eric Gill statue at BBC’s Broadcasting House attacked with hammer

Man in Spider-Man mask scales London headquarters in apparent protest against paedophile sculptor

A controversial statue by the paedophile sculptor Eric Gill on the front of the BBC’s headquarters has been struck with a hammer in an apparent protest, the broadcaster has announced.

A man wearing a Spider-Man mask scaled Broadcasting House in central London and defaced the carving of Prospero and Ariel in the early hours of Saturday morning – the second time the 1931 work has been attacked.

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