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Man who broke into Grade Il-listed church and smashed stained glass window fined £11k
Craig Knight received a 12-month community order and 60 hours unpaid work for damaging a historic church and removing ashes, showing remorse after acting impulsively while drunk.
- Breaking into the Kew church, Craig Knight, 50, of Waltham Forest, smashed a stained-glass window, court heard, and left traces of blood.
- The court heard Knight was drunk at the time of the break-in and extremely ashamed, while Peter Jones, chairman of the magistrates' bench, described his conduct as reckless but remorseful.
- The vicar reported that Knight entered the mausoleum behind the altar and opened a box containing ashes, and two brass candlesticks were removed then returned; Reverend Canon Dr Giles Fraser said, 'I did feel quite angry when it happened'.
- He pleaded guilty to criminal damage and removal of human remains and was sentenced to a 12-month community order with a fine of £114 and 60 hours of unpaid work.
- St Anne's Church dates to the era after Queen Anne approved a chapel; it was founded in 114 and is the burial place of Thomas Gainsborough, Johann Zoffany, George Engleheart, and Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker.
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