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Brantford, Ont., cops say video being examined after Gretzky statues defaced

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Sylvia Holder and her granddaughter Raya, 4, look at a statue of Wayne Gretzky and his parents Walter and Phyllis in front of the Wayne Gretzky Sports Centre in Gretzky\'s hometown of Brantford, Ont., Wednesday, October 2, 2013. The statues, since cleaned, were defaced with blue paint by vandals overnight Monday.THE CANADIAN PRESS/ Geoff Robins

BRANTFORD, Ont. – Police in Brantford, Ont., are examining videotape as they investigate vandalism to new statues of hockey great Wayne Gretzky in his hometown.

Police say they have a video that was forwarded to them of Monday’s overnight vandalism, which involved someone defacing the statues with spray paint.

But they say they have made no arrests yet in the defacing of the statues honouring the Great One, which were publicly unveiled Sunday outside the newly renovated Wayne Gretzky Sports Centre.

The statues depict Gretzky holding the Stanley Cup over his head in victory, and as a youth with his parents by his side.

Brantford Mayor Chris Friel calls the vandalism “disgraceful” and a “crime against the community.”

Crews were at the scene Tuesday, cleaning off the spray paint.

(CKPC, CFRB)

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