Just Stop Oil Protesters desecrate Darwin's grave

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A photograph of Darwin and his son William, 1842

Left-Wing Just Stop Oil protesters today desecrated Charles Darwin's grave in Westminster Abbey.

Darwin (1809-1882) is renowned for discovering evolution and for his 1859 book "On the Origin of Species."

But early this morning two Just Stop Oil protesters used chalk paint on his grave inside Westminster Abbey, desecrating the resting place of one of the world's greatest scientists...

 
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Blackleaf

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One of the Van Gogh vandals just got a 2 year sentence last week.

Offences in Cemeteries Act (England and Wales, 1977)​

18.—(1) No person shall—

(a)wilfully create any disturbance in a cemetery;

(b)commit any nuisance in a cemetery;

(c)wilfully interfere with any burial taking place in a cemetery;

(d)wilfully interfere with any grave or vault, any tombstone or other memorial, or any flowers or plants on any such matter; or

(e)play at any game or sport in a cemetery.

(2) No person not being an officer or servant of the burial authority or another person so authorised by or on behalf of the burial authority shall enter or remain in a cemetery at any hour when it is closed to the public.
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I don't know what punishment they will receive but I reckon they will be treated less harshly for desecrating a person's grave than those people were for desecrating a painting.
 
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