Six months for Doncaster man who vandalised Queen's portrait
A Fathers4Justice campaigner from Doncaster has been sentenced to six months' imprisonment for defacing a portrait of the Queen with paint in Westminster Abbey.
Guilty - campaigner who spray painted the Queen's portrait
A Fathers4Justice campaigner from Doncaster has been found guilty of defacing a portrait of the Queen with purple paint while it was hanging in Westminster Abbey.
Tim Haries had told jurors he vandalised the picture to highlight the "social justice issue of our time."
Haries had denied a charge of causing criminal damage of more than £5,000 but was found guilty by jurors at London's Southwark Crown Court.
The father-of-two smuggled a can of purple spray paint into the abbey on June 13 before scrawling the word "help" on the painting worth £160,000.
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