and so it begins
LONDON (Reuters) - Vandals smashed windows and damaged a car Wednesday at the home of a former bank chief who sparked public anger when he refused to give up his huge pension after the government rescued his bank.
A previously unknown group calling itself "Bank Bosses Are Criminals" said it had carried out the attack.
Sir Fred Goodwin, former chief executive of the Royal Bank of Scotland, left the bank with an annual pension of around 700,000 pounds last October after the government bailed it out.
After the attack in the early hours, a protest group emailed local papers claiming responsibility for the attack.
"We are angry that rich people, like him, are paying themselves a huge amount of money, and living in luxury, while ordinary people are made unemployed, destitute and homeless," the message said.
"This is a crime. Bank bosses should be jailed. This is just the beginning."
BACKLASH
Goodwin's refusal to repay the pension, despite leading the bank into Britain's biggest ever corporate failure, triggered a public and political backlash.and so it begins