Final week, 21-year-old Jack Gibson-Burrel, the accused creator of the notorious “Pam the Fowl,” was arrested and charged with 50 offenses together with felony housebreaking, motor theft and round $100,000 value of graffiti-related harm.
Gibson-Burrel confronted Melbourne Justice of the Peace’s Courtroom following a string of cartoon-like murals that sprung up throughout Melbourne’s cityscape during the last six months. Alongside him, 39-year-old Matthew Raoul White has additionally been charged for felony harm linked to the “SROCK” tag usually seen with the hen.
During the last a number of years, Pam the Fowl gained a cult following on social media, rising to the standing of a mascot within the metropolis’s western suburbs, with appearances sprawled throughout metro rails, street indicators and towering landmarks, just like the Channel 9 constructing, Flinders Avenue Station, and simply final week, the Novotel South Wharf.
Proof introduced in court docket included CCTV footage allegedly capturing Gibson-Burrel delivering packing containers of Pam merch emblazoned with the hen motif. Authorities additionally famous handwriting analyses, financial institution information and e mail addresses linked to the goodbirdart Instagram account tie him to the crime.
Detective Senior Constable Scott Nicholls testified that Gibson-Burrel was the one particular person caught portray Pam the Fowl in Australia, claiming all situations of the graffiti had been the work of 1 particular person.
Previous to the arrests, the hen murals sparked debate throughout Melbourne, with some evaluating the hen to the town’s road art-covered laneways, and others calling it “pure vandalism.”
