Man attacks statue at BBC HQ with hammer and chisel

A police officer watches as a man wearing a Spiderman mask uses a hammer and chisel to damage the Prospero and Ariel statue by Eric Gill, outside BBC Broadcasting House in London, in an apparent protest. Picture date: Saturday May 20, 2023.

A masked man has attacked a statue on the front of the BBC’s Broadcasting House in central London with a hammer and chisel.

It comes days after repair work was started to the previously-attacked Grade II listed statue, of Prospero and Ariel from Shakespeare’s The Tempest by Eric Gill, who is said to have sexually abused two of his daughters.