BBC<\/a> that artwork would be removed.<\/p>\nThey said it is because the Royal Courts of Justice is a listed building and that it was “obliged to maintain its original character”.<\/p>\n
Yesterday (September 9), officials were spotted removing the artwork, leaving behind a shadowed outline.<\/p>\n
Project manager Chris Ing, 38, spotted the scene on his way home from work.<\/p>\n
He said: “The police set up a cordon and people were power washing it.<\/p>\n
“It’s all gone now – but you can still see the picture there.<\/p>\n
“It seems surprising – I get that it’s graffiti, but it’s more than graffiti.”<\/p>\n
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The mural depicts a court judge hitting a protester with a gavel. Banksy, a Bristol-based street artist, confirmed the artwork was one of his own(Image: Christopher Ing\u00a9 SWNS)<\/p>\n
A HM Courts and Tribunals Service spokesperson said: “The Royal Courts of Justice is a listed building and HMCTS are obliged to maintain its original character.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The mural showed a court judge hitting a protester with a gavel \u00a0Amy Reast and Shannon Brown Reporter…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":413215,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[15791,192,381,748,30,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-413214","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-banksy","9":"tag-bbc","10":"tag-bristol","11":"tag-britain","12":"tag-courts","13":"tag-england","14":"tag-great-britain","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115180217732712571","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Shocking pictures show Banksy’s latest mural being washed off the wall of the Royal Courts of Justice – one day after appearing(Image: Christopher Ing\u00a9 SWNS)<\/p>\n![\"The](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/0_new-banksy-mura-1427480.jpg\")
The new mural appeared on the side of the central London building only yesterday(Image: Christopher Ing\u00a9 SWNS)<\/p>\n