A pro-Palestinian protester has sparked fury by filming himself repeatedly spitting on a statue commemorating murdered MP David Amess.
Essex Police are facing calls to investigate a yob calling himself ‘Angry Jesus’ on social media who targeted the statue on the Southend seafront.
In footage posted online he showed himself spitting three times on the statue of Sir David, days after the fifth anniversary of his murder during a constituency surgery.
As he did so he said: ‘People were just bowing to this p***k. Voted for the Iraq war. Shame.’
Despite posting the first-person footage he bizarrely claimed in the comments that it was
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