The artwork, featuring swathes of bright green paint, was defaced just two days after it appeared with streaks of white paint.

Banksy mural covered with plastic sheeting and wooden boards

The Banksy artwork which has been defaced with white paint after it appeared over the weekend on the side of a residential building on Hornsey Road in Finsbury Park, London. Bright green paint has been sprayed on the building, in front of a cut-back tree, creating the impression of being its foliage. A stencil of a person holding a pressure hose has been sketched onto the building as well. The vivid paint colour matches that used by Islington Council for street signs in the area. Picture date: Wednesday March 20, 2024.



Images shared on social media on Wednesday showed two streaks of white paint covering the green artwork on Hornsey Road in Finsbury Park.

Banksy mural vandalised with white paint

People in the audience using smartphones to record Kanye West performing on the Main Stage at the Wireless Festival in Finsbury Park, north London.

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 photo issued by the Metropolitan Police of Eileen Cotter

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Handout CCTV image issued by Metropolitan Police of two men suspected of raping a woman as she walked home from a pub last year. The 31-year-old victim left the venue in Finsbury Park, north London with two men shortly before 11pm on July 15 2019. They walked for a short distance before she was attacked and raped on Green Lanes.

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