A man has been arrested after defacing a Winston Churchill statue in central London that labelled the former British prime minister as a “zionist war criminal”.

A man has been arrested after defacing a Winston Churchill statue in central London that labelled the former British prime minister as a “zionist war criminal”.

The Westminster statue of the former prime minister is vandalised with slogans daubed in red paint.

London police said they caught a vandal red-handed - or at least with red paint - after he defaced a statue Friday of former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in central London with pro-Palesti

The statue of the former prime minster at Westminster was vandalised with slogans daubed in red paint.

The statue of the former prime minster at Westminster is being cleaned up after the vandalism attack.

Other phrases including "Stop the Genocide" and "Free Palestine" were sprayed in red paint on the bronze sculpture in Parliament Square .