///Gherkin has grandchildren, so is unlikely to be the culprit. ///
A good back-story can often throw less diligent observers off the scent.....
However, suggesting that any particular ABer may be responsible for the vandalism witnessed over the past few days wherever it has occured is, quite frankly, childish in the extreme.
Perhaps if some of these 'pale/male/stale' statues were to be taken down and replaced with more relevant and modern (in relative terms) statues, that would be no bad thing.