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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Mathilde Grandjean

Judge tells Paddington statue thieves: ‘You are the opposite of the loveable bear’

The actions of two Royal Air Force engineers who tore a newly installed Paddington Bear statue in half before stealing it were “the antithesis of everything Paddington stands for”, a judge has said.

Daniel Heath and William Lawrence, who are both 22 and work as engineers at RAF Odiham in Hampshire, had been drinking when they damaged the statue in Newbury at 2am on 2 March.

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