{"id":7204,"date":"2026-02-28T06:53:42","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T06:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=7204"},"modified":"2026-02-28T06:53:42","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T06:53:42","slug":"man-charged-over-graffiti-on-sir-winston-churchill-statue-in-parliament-square-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=7204","title":{"rendered":"Man charged over graffiti on Sir Winston Churchill statue in Parliament Square | UK News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n<div data-component-name=\"ui-article-body\" data-testid=\"article-body\" data-highlight-intro=\"true\">\n<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; were sprayed on the 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>He was taken into custody and charged at 3.50am today.<\/p>\n<p>He was remanded and is due to appear at Highbury Corner Magistrates&#8217; Court later this morning.<\/p>\n<p><em>This breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Please refresh the page for the fullest version.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>You can receive breaking news alerts on a smartphone or tablet via the <a href=\"https:\/\/qrcode.skynews.com\/skynews\/appdownload\"><strong>Sky News app<\/strong><\/a>. <\/em><em><em>You can also <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029Va868Fv8vd1UsF99tP1u\"><em><strong>follow us on WhatsApp<\/strong><\/em><\/a><em> and subscribe to our <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/skynews\"><em><strong>YouTube channel<\/strong><\/em><\/a><em> to keep up with the latest news.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/man-charged-over-graffiti-on-sir-winston-churchill-statue-in-parliament-square-13513201\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man has been charged after a statue of Sir Winston Churchill was defaced with graffiti. Words including &#8220;Zionist war criminal&#8221; were sprayed on the statue&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2169,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}