Margaret Thatcher statue vandalised with hammer and sickle weeks after being egged

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A statue of Margaret Thatcher has been vandalised again two weeks after it was egged.

The £300,000 carving, which was erected in the late former prime minister’s home town of Grantham, was found splattered with red paint on 28 May.

A red hammer and sickle was also painted on the fence surrounding it.

A spokesperson for the district council told the Grantham Journal that they are “aware of the damage” caused to the statue and are “working with internal and external partners, including the police, to resolve this.”

The incident is believed to have taken place late in the evening on 27 May. Lincolnshire Police are treating the defacement as criminal damage.

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“We received reports of a person shown on CCTV acting suspiciously near the site,” a spokesperson for Lincolnshire Police said in a statement. “Officers attended and found graffiti had been spray-painted onto the barriers surrounding the statue.

“No damage was thought to have been caused to the statue itself.”

Today, the Margaret Thatcher statue in Grantham, England was vandalised with red paint. A hammer and sickle was also spray painted underneath