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Police said a security patrol alerted officers to three people ­attempting to sever the head of the statue and using red paint on Captain Cook’s cottage in Fitzroy Gardens about 2am on Tuesday.

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Police are seeking three people captured on CCTV overnight, whom they say tried to cut off the statue’s head and sprayed anti-Captain Cook messages in red paint on the cottage. Victoria Police ...

A group of alleged vandals has been caught on camera attempting to deface a statue of Captain James Cook and a historic cottage built by his father. Anna Houlahan reports on crime and social ...

A statue of Captain Cook and his family's 18th century home have been vandalised in Fitzroy Gardens, in Melbourne's CBD. It follows a string of attacks targeting colonial figures, including a ...

Police say vandals who used an angle grinder in an attempt to cut the head off a statue of Captain Cook in Fitzroy Gardens ... at their own peril.” Spray paint was quickly removed from Cooks ...

Almost a year to the day since the statue of Captain Cook was toppled in Fitzroy Gardens, vandals have again attacked overnight. It was reinstalled earlier this month, and overnight, vandals ...

The paint has since been cleaned off the cottage. The statue of Captain Cook also stands in the gardens and was damaged in attempts to cut off its head. The vandalism comes just two weeks after ...

Police were alerted by security patrols on Tuesday morning that the Captain Cook statue, located near Cook's cottage in Fitzroy Gardens, had been damaged overnight. The cottage was defaced with ...