Decapitation of a statue of Margaret Thatcher

On July 3, 2002, Paul Kelleher decapitated a £150,000, 8-foot, 1.8 tonne marble statue of the former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher on display at the Guildhall Art Gallery in central London.

Having unsuccessfully swiped the statue with a Slazenger V600 cricket bat concealed in his trousers, Kelleher used a metal rope support stanchion to decapitate the statue.

The statue had been commissioned in 1998 from sculptor Neil Simmons by the House of Commons Speaker's Advisory Committee on Works of Art It was unveiled there by Thatcher in May 1998.<ref...
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