Smashing time

We all know those stories that we read, reported as sober fact, but which never quite sit right. For me, one of these was the account in January of the man who smashed three large and very valuable Qing vases in the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, after he supposedly stumbled down a staircase. Now it seems it was no accident. Mr. Clumsy turns out to have a conviction for assault, and attempted to re-enter the Museum during a media presentation on the proposed restoration of the vases. Having viewed CCTV images of the 'accident', police have laid charges of criminal damage.