Man, 21, arrested for urinating on a Bristol war memorial on Remembrance Sunday
He allegedly went to the toilet on the Cenotaph at 2.20am in the centre of the city
A 21-year-old man has been arrested for urinating on a war memorial in Bristol in the early hours of Remembrance Sunday.
He allegedly went to the toilet on the Cenotaph at 2.20am in the centre of the city.
The Cenotaph commemorates the city's residents who lost their lives serving their country.
A spokesman for Avon and Somerset Police told the Bristol Post: "We have arrested a man on suspicion of an indecent act at a war memorial in Bristol.
"The 21-year-old man from Bristol was arrested at about 2.20am this morning after he was spotted urinating on The Cenotaph in Colston Avenue.
"He has been arrested on suspicion of a public order offence – an act of outraging public decency.
"The man remains in police custody."
Thousands of people paid their respects in the city today. A parade was led by 7 Military Intelligence Battalion and will also include cadets and veterans.
Remembrance Sunday takes place every year on the nearest Sunday to the anniversary of the end of World War I on November 11, 1918.
Similar ceremonies were held in dozens of towns and cities across Britain and at British military bases overseas.
In London Prince Charles led Britain's annual Remembrance Sunday ceremony for war dead, taking the role held for more than six decades by his mother Queen Elizabeth II.
The 91-year-old queen, dressed in black, watched the service at London's Cenotaph memorial from a nearby balcony alongside her 96-year-old husband Prince Philip.
The monarch, who is gradually cutting back on public duties after 65 years on the throne, had asked her 68-year-old son and heir to lay a wreath of poppies on her behalf.
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