Local council investigating how to ‘reattach’ and ‘repurpose’ head of town’s Paddy Hannan statue
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A man has been charged over decapitating the statue of a famous local prospector, adding the next twist to a mystery that left a rural Australian gold mining town puzzled.
Early on Thursday morning, the local council in Kalgoorlie – a city about 600km north-east of Perth in Western Australia – learned of “an act of vandalism that targeted” a statue of Paddy Hannan. Police believe that the night before, between 11pm and midnight, the head was lopped off.
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