Police in Shrewsbury, England are investigating how film prop, which was used in 1984 adaptation of Charles Dickens’ story, was destroyed.

A gravestone for Ebenezer Scrooge, left behind after the filming of a 1984 movie adaptation of A Christmas Carol, has been smashed. The inscribed stone, used as a prop in the film, has lain in the graveyard next to St Chad’s Church, Shrewsbury, since the movie based on the Charles Dickens classic was released 40 years ago.

A prop gravestone for Charles Dickens's character Ebenezer Scrooge which appeared in the 1984 film A Christmas Carol has been destroyed.