Two climate change protestors are charged after an incident at Coventry's Dippy the Diplodocus exhibit.
BBC News, West MidlandsPolice were called to the Dippy the Diplodocus replica in the Herbert Art Gallery and Museum in Coventry on Monday.Victoria Lindsell, 67, and Daniel Knorr, 21, of Green Street, Oxford, are charged with having an article with intent to destroy or damage property.
Lindsell, of School Hill, Flecknoe, Warwickshire, has been released on bail and will appear at Warwick Crown Court on 9 May.Dippy the Diplodocus previously stood at the Natural History Museum before being unveiled in Coventry She has been ordered not to enter the museum or carry coloured paint or powder with the purpose of destroying property.
Dippy, a 26-metre long cast of a diplodocus skeleton began a three-year residency at the gallery in February and has proved popular with visitors. It was previously seen by more than two million people on a UK tour after its 112-year stay in the Natural History Museum ended in 2017.
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