The artwork, created using a stencil, typical of the artist, shows one of Banksy’s trademark necklace-wearing rats holding a placard.

On the placard is a young man’s face, bearing a striking resemblance to the MoS photograph, unveiled last July, of a man believed to be Mr Gunningham, 35, a former pupil at the £9,240-a-year Bristol Cathedral School.

It is possible the graffiti art was created by someone else. But evidence compiled in a Mail on Sunday investigation suggests that Banksy is indeed Robin Gunningham – and that in his latest graffiti he has coyly acknowledged his unmasking.

To be clear, anyone could have painted the stencil and even if Banksy himself did, it wouldn’t confirm anything other than the artist reads the newspaper and has a sense of humor.

“I came to New Orleans to do battle with the Gray Ghost, a notorious vigilante who’s been systematically painting over any graffiti he can find with the same shade of grey paint since 1997. Consequently he’s done more damage to the culture of the city than any section five hurricane could ever hope to achieve.”

Radtke has made it his mission to buff all forms of graffiti—in some cases even on private property—making him just as guilty of vandalism as the vandals he claims to be fighting. Click below for another example of Banksy’s homage to the color hating, idea killing vandal and other spots that not even Gray Ghost is going to bother buffing.

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“Please Note
I am unable to comment on who may or may not be Banksy, but anyone described as being “good at drawing” doesn’t sound like Banksy to me.”

And in response to this perfectly predictable piece, no it doesn’t matter if he went to a fancy prep school, and he ain’t “middle class” either, he’s rich!

And now, the ‘Mail’ took that same photo of Banksy from JA to help trace his identity, leading to a witness from Bristol not only verifying it was him, but also offering up the “art terrorist’s” government name as Robin Gunningham. After some public record searches, that led them to his supposed fancy prep school, uncovering the above younger, Harry Potter-looking image of him as a student at Bristol Cathedral School from 1989. There’s also some other interesting items from a slew of sources, but the best was this odd exchange with his alleged, Robin Gunningham-denying parents:

His mother Pamela lives in a neat modern bungalow in a village outside Bristol. After identifying ourselves, we asked her if she had a son called Robin.
Her reaction was very odd. We showed her the Jamaica photograph and she was visibly startled, but said she didn’t recognise the man in the photograph, to whom she bears more than a passing resemblance. We asked if she could put us in touch with him.
‘I’m afraid I don’t know how to get in contact with him,’ she said.
So she did have a son called Robin? ‘No, I don’t. I don’t have a son at all.’
We asked her if she had any other children. ‘Yes, a daughter.’
But no son and certainly not a son who went to Bristol Cathedral School?
‘No,’ she said, and went on to deny she was Pamela Gunningham, insisting that the electoral roll must be incorrect.
Our conversation with Peter Gunningham, who now lives in a gated development in the suburb of Kingsdown, was equally baffling.
Again, we presented the photograph of Banksy/Robin Gunningham. Mr Gunningham said he didn’t recognise the person in the picture. We told him that we believed his son to be Banksy. ‘No,’ he replied. ‘I can’t help you, really.’
Mr Gunningham politely continued to deny that his son was Banksy but his manner was almost playful. He refused to give us any information about Robin. It was all very strange.
Had the couple never heard of Banksy or Robin Gunningham, one might have expected a reaction of complete bewilderment. This did not seem to be the case.

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