Man, 38, Charged After Vandalism of Winston Churchill Statue
1st March 2026
A 38-year-old man has been charged with criminal damage after graffiti was sprayed on the statue of Winston Churchill in Westminster, police said.
The Metropolitan Police said Caspar San Giorgio, of no fixed address, was arrested shortly after 4am on Friday.
He was taken into custody and charged with criminal damage just before 4am on Saturday.
Graffiti was daubed on the statue of the former prime minister in Parliament Square in the early hours of Friday morning, branding him a “Zionist war criminal”.
Other phrases including “Stop the Genocide” and “Free Palestine” were sprayed in red paint on the bronze sculpture.