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Abbie Meehan

Iconic Edinburgh statue spray painted by vandal who said it looked 'miserable'

An iconic seated sculpture in the Leith neighbourhood of Edinburgh was vandalised, after the perpetrator felt like he looked too 'miserable' to begin with.

A local Facebook community page, Friends of the Water of Leith Basin (FOWL.b), posted the photos with the caption: "A spray painter was spotted this morning vandalising the seated sculpture on the North Shore.

"He said the sculpture looks miserable and he tries to make him look happy by adding paint.

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