London - (Rotters): Former world boxing champ Chris Eubank has been arrested after carrying a placard outside the Ministry of Defence in Whitehall protesting about Prince Harry being sent on active duty to war-torn Peckham where armed police officers are already patrolling the streets following lethal shootings in the notorious area's crack turf wars during the last few weeks.
He was taken to a local police station, formally ridiculed and later bailed pending a magistrates hearing tomorrow.
His protest is about conditions in London SE15 that have been described as akin to civil war after local crack gangs spread their tribal conflict from nearby Brixton.
There is now an ongoing turf war on London Mayor Ken Livingstone's personally appointed Non-Aligned Crack Barons Movement reps who traditionally claim the area as their own business territory.
Clearly Eubank found this disturbing, even though nobody quite knows why.
Press reports have said that Harry is to be issued with a standard issue Glock and camouflage combat fatigues including an I-Love-Skunk T-shirt, Rasta hat, flick knife and plentiful supply of Rizla King Size.
But because he is so important, a team of Royal Protection Squad officers will guard him day and night as he goes deep under cover in the crack dens and skunk shacks of the Upper Peckham Road.
His dangerous missions will include stealthy blending in with the locals, enjoyment of the indigenous cuisine (mainly Colonel Sanders and Spud-U-Like) intelligence gathering while under the influence and penetration of key notorious paramilitary-type characters called Shaggy Sandra, Double D Daisy and a host of others.
Eubank has told the press that the area is far too combatative for a nancyboy like Harry and has questioned the publicity implications of PM Tony Blair's agenda.
Police took away his protest placard which read: "Blair don't send young Ginger to your catastrophic illegal war in Peckham just to make you look good".
He apprears before magistrates at 10am tomorrow.
