{"id":315238,"date":"2026-02-28T20:24:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T20:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/315238\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T20:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T20:24:10","slug":"man-charged-over-graffiti-on-sir-winston-churchill-statue-in-parliament-square-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/315238\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged over graffiti on Sir Winston Churchill statue in Parliament Square | UK News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man has been charged after a statue of Sir Winston Churchill was defaced with graffiti.<\/p>\n<p>Words including &#8220;Zionist war criminal&#8221;, &#8220;Stop the Genocide&#8221; and &#8220;Free Palestine&#8221; were sprayed in red paint on the bronze statue in Parliament Square in Westminster in the early hours of Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Caspar San Giorgio, 38, of no fixed address, was arrested shortly after 4am on Friday, police said.<\/p>\n<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sdc-article-image__item\" loading=\"lazy\" intrinsicsize=\"768x432\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/skynews-parliament-winston-churchill_7176547.jpg\"   alt=\"Pic: PA\" data-testid=\"article-image-image\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        Image:<br \/>\n        Pic: PA<\/p>\n<p>He was taken into custody and charged at 3.50am on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>He was remanded and is due to appear at Highbury Corner Magistrates&#8217; Court.<\/p>\n<p>San Giorgio was also arrested on suspicion of supporting Palestine Action, which is a proscribed organisation, under the Terrorism Act, the Metropolitan Police said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The statue was cordoned off and work to clean it began on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Further graffiti read &#8220;Never again is Now&#8221; and &#8220;Globalise the Intifada&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been charged after a statue of Sir Winston Churchill was defaced with graffiti. Words including&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":315239,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-315238","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-israel","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}