Man charged over Blaine paint bomb stunt

A 28-year-old man was has been charged with criminal damage after paint bombs were fired at David Blaine.

A 28-year-old man was has been charged with criminal damage after paint bombs were fired at David Blaine.

Unemployed Henry Cookson, of Kinnoul Road, west London, will appear at Tower Bridge magistrates court on October 10th.

He is alleged to have used a catapult to fire balloons filled with pink paint at the magician at 3am.

One of them scored a direct hit on Blaine's clear perspex cage, waking up the 30-year-old New Yorker.

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In a separate incident, another man has already been charged with criminal damage and threatening behaviour after allegedly trying to cut off Blaine's water supply.

The magician is approaching the halfway stage in his attempt to spend 44 days without food in his box, which is suspended from a crane near Tower Bridge in London.