Banksy’s Girl with Balloon stolen from gallery as two men charged

Two men person been charged with burglary aft Banksy’s Girl with Baloon artwork was stolen from a London gallery.

Larry Fraser, 47, of Evelyn Denington Road, Beckton, and James Love, 53, of Elvin Drive, North Stifford, were charged Thursday with non-residential burglary.

They’ll look astatine Wimbledon Magistrates’ Court connected September 12.

An probe into the missing portion was launched astatine astir 11pm connected Sunday.

The gallery, which constabulary did not sanction but said was connected cardinal London’s New Cavendish Street, has since had the artwork returned.

Girl with Baloon is simply a bid of stencil murals by the enigmatic creator that popped up implicit the superior successful the 2000s, with the archetypal connected Waterloo Bridge.

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