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13-06-2008, 08:56
A VANDAL paid by the BBC to deface the EastEnders set was the “main mover” in a graffiti gang which caused £600,000 damage to trains in Europe.
Andrew Gillman was on bail for his part in the “military-style” wave of destruction when he was taken on by the Beeb’s Art Department.
Producers asked Gillman, 25 – who used a false name to land the job – to daub graffiti on some of the soap’s landmarks including The Queen Vic, the Albert Square street sign and the Mitchell’s Autos car lot.
He scrawled the tag of his gang – The DPM Crew – and his own, a court heard.
The gang mostly targeted trains and rail stations in South London, but also hit Liverpool, Manchester, Sunderland, Paris, Amsterdam and the Czech Republic.
Their two-year blitz ended when four were arrested after surveillance in 2006
At Southwark Crown Court yesterday Paul Stewart, 26, admitted conspiracy to commit criminal damage. Jack Binnie, 25, Ziggy Grudzinskas, 25, Alex McClelland, 24, Matthew Pease, 24, Matthew Tanti, 23, James Teasdale, 21, Slav Zinoviev, 25, and Gillman did so earlier.
The nine, of South London, got bail. Det Supt Michael Field said: “They thought they were untouchable.”
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Andrew Gillman was on bail for his part in the “military-style” wave of destruction when he was taken on by the Beeb’s Art Department.
Producers asked Gillman, 25 – who used a false name to land the job – to daub graffiti on some of the soap’s landmarks including The Queen Vic, the Albert Square street sign and the Mitchell’s Autos car lot.
He scrawled the tag of his gang – The DPM Crew – and his own, a court heard.
The gang mostly targeted trains and rail stations in South London, but also hit Liverpool, Manchester, Sunderland, Paris, Amsterdam and the Czech Republic.
Their two-year blitz ended when four were arrested after surveillance in 2006
At Southwark Crown Court yesterday Paul Stewart, 26, admitted conspiracy to commit criminal damage. Jack Binnie, 25, Ziggy Grudzinskas, 25, Alex McClelland, 24, Matthew Pease, 24, Matthew Tanti, 23, James Teasdale, 21, Slav Zinoviev, 25, and Gillman did so earlier.
The nine, of South London, got bail. Det Supt Michael Field said: “They thought they were untouchable.”
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