A man has been charged after he allegedly cut off the head of the statue of a Goldfields pioneer on Kalgoorlie’s main street.
Police allege the 38-year-old man decapitated the statue of Patrick ‘Paddy’ Hannan between 11pm Wednesday and midnight along Hannan St – named after the man whose statue was damaged.
Located outside Kalgoorlie’s Town Hall, the statue was erected to commemorate Paddy Hannan whose 1893 discovery of gold sparked the Western Australian gold rush, and lead to the founding of Kalgoorlie, which was originally named Hannan’s Find. The statue prior to its decapitation. It’s actually a replica of the original 1929 statue, which is nearby inside the Town Hall. Picture: Tourism Western Australia
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