Protesting fathers put crucified dummy on UK abbey

LONDON, Apr 13 (Reuters) Divorced fathers campaigning for equal access to their children tied a crucified dummy Jesus Christ to the front of London's Westminster Abbey today.

Two protesters clambered up the abbey with the dummy figure that wore a T-shirt bearing the words: ''Our Father Who Art in Hell.'' The ''Real Fathers For Justice'' said in a statement that they had staged their Easter protest to ''demand that both parents be as equal in family law as they are in the eyes of God.'' In January, the mainstream Fathers4Justice campaign group decided to disband after reports that police had foiled a plot to kidnap Prime Minister Tony Blair's five-year-old son Leo.

The group, which insisted that none of its current members had been involved in any kidnap plot, had staged several high-profile protests in the past few years.

A campaigner dressed as Batman climbed Queen Elizabeth's Buckingham Palace in 2004 and another threw purple flour bombs at Blair while he addressed parliament.

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