{"id":453198,"date":"2026-02-02T07:41:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T07:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/453198\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T07:41:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T07:41:08","slug":"accused-pam-the-bird-graffitist-jack-gibson-burrell-to-face-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/453198\/","title":{"rendered":"Accused ‘Pam the Bird’ graffitist Jack Gibson-Burrell to face trial"},"content":{"rendered":"

The alleged graffiti vandal behind “Pam the Bird” has pleaded not guilty to more than 200 offences and will fight the charges at trial.<\/p>\n

Jack Gibson-Burrell, 22, faced Melbourne<\/a> Magistrates Court in person on Monday, wearing red Crocs, when a magistrate decided to send his case to the County Court<\/a> for trial.<\/p>\n

He has been charged with 209 offences, including more than a dozen of reckless conduct endangering life or serious injury, criminal damage, theft and aggravated burglary.<\/p>\n

\"JackJack Gibson-Burrell, 22, faced Melbourne Magistrates Court in person on Monday, wearing red Crocs and leaving on a RipStik. (Nine)<\/p>\n

Gibson-Burrell is accused of causing about $700,000 damage, including to heritage-listed Victorian landmarks where he allegedly sprayed the “Pam the Bird” tag.<\/p>\n

This includes allegations he trespassed into Melbourne’s Flinders Street Station in July 2024, and abseiled up its famous clock tower, to paint the bird on it.<\/p>\n

He is further accused of stopping a train in its tracks, encouraging two children to enter train tracks and raise their middle finger at the driver and passengers, and climbing up the disused Melbourne Star ferris wheel.<\/p>\n

Gibson-Burrell also allegedly stabbed a man in West Footscray, punched a worker in the face at Emporium Melbourne, stole multiple cars in Torquay and ram-raided a Nando’s restaurant in Footscray.<\/p>\n

Magistrate Michelle Mykytowycz remarked there were “simply too many” charges for her to detail them all in court on Monday.<\/p>\n

\"PamGibson-Burrell is accused of causing about $700,000 damage, including to heritage-listed Victorian landmarks where he allegedly sprayed the “Pam the Bird” tag. (Nine)<\/p>\n

The magistrate was satisfied the evidence in the prosecution’s brief was of sufficient weight for the matter to progress to a jury trial in the higher court.<\/p>\n

“In relation to these charges, do you plead guilty or not guilty?” Mykytowycz asked.<\/p>\n

“Not guilty,” Gibson-Burrell replied, standing in the front row of court.<\/p>\n

She ordered him to face the County Court for a directions hearing on March 3.<\/p>\n

Gibson-Burrell was granted trial bail on the same terms and conditions, including that he is subjected to a $30,000 surety, a nightly curfew, cannot possess graffiti or abseiling equipment and must not travel interstate or overseas.<\/p>\n

The accused vandal, who departed court dressed as Spider-Man last year, left the premises via a two-wheeled RipStik in front of dozens of media on Monday.<\/p>\n

He declined to speak as he precariously travelled down Williams Street towards Flagstaff Station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The alleged graffiti vandal behind “Pam the Bird” has pleaded not guilty to more than 200 offences and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":453199,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-453198","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}