Thorngumbald Parish Councillor Chantel Richardson created the controversial figure based on a real local homeless man for a competition.She claimed that the ill-thought-out creation was a “light-hearted gesture he would have liked".READ MORE: 'Severely genetically compromised' incest baby dies hours after birth by sibling parentsThe unnamed inspiration for the figure was known in the area for defecating in public before being told to move on for antisocial behaviour.The scarecrow even has an orange hi-viz and the word “asylum” written on his hat.
However, residents thought it was tasteless and “offensive”, Hull Live reports.Local Denzle Cooper said: “Ridiculing the vulnerable adult is most definitely not the behaviour expected of our local councillors.
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