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A street artist has claimed to be behind the the "Never liked this Banksy" graffiti that appeared in 2013 beneath Banksy's Love Plane on Rumford Street, which was later cut out of the wall and sold. Silent Bill, an anonymous street artist from Merseyside, told the ECHO he created the piece as a tongue in cheek homage to the artist, and said the decision to sell it for £250,000 was "appalling."
Silent Bill also criticised the cutting out of the original mural, which was sold to a collector in Los Angeles for more than 200,000 euros at auction. He said: "The pieces were a gift from Banksy to the people of Liverpool and were never intended to be cut out and become rich people's trophies."
