SCOTLAND
Daily Record
A call has been made for a valuable sculpture in a Dumbarton church to be removed because it was made by a paedophile.
The demand is for the removal from St Patrick’s Catholic Church of a statue of St Michael the Archangel, which includes fonts for holy water.
It was created by sculptor Eric Gill, whose works are also on display at such high-profile locations as Westminster Cathedral in London, the BBC’s Broadcasting House
and the European HQ of the United Nations in Geneva.
However, he was also a sexual deviant who was known to have had intimate relations with two of his daughters and his sisters.
Dumbarton man Stuart Coleman told the Lennox Herald: “I find it detestable that art by such a man can be happily displayed publicly. I can’t imagine a piece of artwork by Rolf Harris would be so keenly exhibited within a church.
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