Police discharged CCTV pictures of individuals they need to follow over the spray painting assault

Police discharged CCTV pictures in an offer to get the vandals in charge of the assault on the Lions of the Great War commemoration which they say has caused a lot of trouble in Smethwick.

The statue was mutilated only days before Remembrance Sunday with the expression
'Sepoys no more', while a dark line was drawn through the words 'Extraordinary War'.

Sepoy was a term given to troops in the British Indian Army.

West Midlands Police said the vandalism was being treated as racially-irritated criminal harm.

The two individuals police need to follow

The 10ft-high statue, which is between High Street and Tollhouse Way and was just divulged on November 4, was focused on only five days after the fact, leaving a network sickened.

Administrator Martin Hurcomb, from the Sandwell Police, stated: "Officers are working intimately with the gathering and administration at the adjacent Guru Nanak Sikh Temple as we comprehend that this assault has caused a great deal of worry in the network.

"Work keeps on endeavoring to comprehend the explanations for what occurred and distinguish whoever is mindful. I'd encourage any individual who perceives the general population in this CCTV to connect as quickly as time permits.

"Neighborhood officers keep on working intimately with networks and have expanded police nearness in the territory to give consolation and be available to answer any inquiries or worries that individuals may have."

The statue is the first of its kind checking a long time since the finish of the First World War and recognizing the a large number of men from the British Indian Army who served in both world wars.

Several individuals went to the revealing on Smethwick's High Street only seven days before Remembrance Sunday.

Police have spoke to any individual who perceives the general population in the pictures or has data about what happened they can get in touch with us through Live Chat at west-midlands.police.uk between 8am to midnight, call 101 whenever or contact Crimestoppers secretly on 0800 555 111.