{"id":463825,"date":"2026-03-08T06:31:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T06:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/463825\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T06:31:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T06:31:12","slug":"arrest-in-plymouth-after-sign-for-knife-angel-is-spray-painted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/463825\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrest in Plymouth after sign for Knife Angel is spray-painted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A man has been arrested after a sign was vandalised at the site of a sculpture made from 100,000 knife blades.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Devon and Cornwall Police said graffiti had been spray-painted on a banner at the Knife Angel on Place de Brest in Plymouth city centre on Wednesday or Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A man in his 40s, from Plymouth, has been arrested on suspicion of criminal damage and has been released on bail pending further inquiries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 27ft (8m) tall artwork, which is touring the UK, is made from blades either surrendered or seized by police and aims to highlight the negative effects of knife crime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been arrested after a sign was vandalised at the site of a sculpture made from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":463826,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-463825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}