LONDON— A guy from Australia has actually been billed with “harmful mischievousness” for presumably wrecking a glass situation holding the Rock of Fate, an old icon of Scottish nationhood.
Arnaud Harixcalde Logan, 35, showed up at Perth Constable Court on Monday to encounter the cost, which resembles criminal damage.
Logan, whose address was offered as Sydney, had not been asked to get in an appeal and was bought restrained up until a hearing following week.
Cops claimed that they were phoned call to a “disruption” at Perth Gallery in main Scotland on Saturday, after records of a kilt-wearing guy trying to shatter the situation including the imperial rock.
The 335-pound (150-kilogram) sandstone block is likewise called the Rock of Bun (Skoon)– and was made use of in the crowning events of middle ages Scottish majesties at Bun Abbey, near Perth. It was swiped by England’s King Edward I in the 13th century and required to Westminster Abbey in London, where it was mounted under the seat of the crowning chair.
It has actually been made use of in crownings at the abbey since– initial of English and after that of British majesties The English and Scottish crowns were unified under one king in the 17th century.
The rock’s visibility in London long annoyed Scottish nationalists. In 1950, it was swiped from Westminster Abbey by 4 Glasgow college student, yet was returned in time for the crowning of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953.
It was repaid to Scotland in 1996, 700 years after its seizure, and presented in Edinburgh Castle, with the understanding that it would certainly go back to England for usage in future crownings. Level of sensitivities around the rock indicated that it needed to be transferred to London in privacy and amidst limited safety and security for the crowning of King Charles III in 2023.
In 2014 it was placed on display screen at the recently remodelled Perth Gallery where, according to the structure’s web site, there are “a series of 24/7 safety and security actions in position at the Gallery to shield this valuable things.”
Society Perth and Kinross, which supervises the gallery, claimed the rock had not been harmed in the case.
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