The artwork showing a rodent sipping a cocktail in a deckchair in Lowestoft, Suffolk, was covered in white paint in the early hours of Sunday morning
Cops are hunting a vandal who wrecked a Banksy artwork with white paint just one week after it first appeared.Security guards interrupted the vandal as they defaced the image on a sea wall in Lowestoft, Suffolk on Sunday morning but the yob managed to escape.Detectives now want to speak to anyone who was in the area at the time as they attempt to track down the suspect.
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