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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Sarah Harvey

CCTV shows moment men break and steal Paddington Bear statue

This is the moment two RAF engineers pull a Paddington Bear statue off a bench in Newbury.

The men, Daniel Heath and William Lawrence, who are both 22, had been drinking when they damaged the statue at 2am on 2 March.

The pair carried the statue through the town and into a taxi, which took them back to their base at RAF Odiham, Reading Magistrates’ Court heard.

Heath of Thornton, West Yorkshire, and Lawrence, of Enderby, Leicestershire, were sentenced to a 12-month community order on Tuesday after admitting criminal damage.

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