Police have launched an appeal for information after vandals doused a statute of Queen Victoria with red paint during the King's coronation weekend.
Police on Wednesday said the effigy, which overlooks the Queen Victoria Gardens on St Kilda Rd, was defaced between Saturday May 6 and Monday May 8.The statue has stood in the park since 1907, after it was commissioned to commemorate the Queen following her death a few years prior.
While there were celebrations to mark the historic event, protests also broke out in the United Kingdom due to the royal family's colonial history and the price tag of the event amid a cost of living crisis. “Coronation was a delightful and wonderful historic event… I was very proud to be there,” he told reporters in Perth on Monday.
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