Eubank held over Iraq truck protest

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The former world boxing champion was taken away by officers after attempting to park the truck outside the gates to Downing Street.

Witnesses said the truck was emblazoned with a message to Gordon Brown asking him to withdraw from Iraq. A smaller sign read: "This is not a protest."

Eubank, 40, was due to answer bail at nearby Charing Cross police station on Tuesday after being arrested for a similar protest in February. He has already answered bail once in the same truck, this time with a different message directed at Tony Blair.

One witness said Eubank was driven away by officers after a game of cat-and-mouse around nearby Parliament Square.

Armed police in two BMW patrol cars attempted to block the former boxer from re-entering Whitehall in the truck. When they failed, Eubank was stopped and taken away in the back of a third police vehicle, the witness said.

A Metropolitan Police spokeswoman said a man in his 40s was arrested for breach of the peace after repeatedly trying to park in a restricted area. Police described the 32ft truck, which reportedly cost Eubank £54,000 plus delivery to the UK, as a "tractor unit".

The spokeswoman said: "He was subsequently arrested for breach of the peace and is currently in custody at a central London police station."

The message on the back of the truck cab read: "Mr Brown, you know that the policy in Iraq cannot succeed. Democracy cannot be exported with a gun. You can be the great leader and the great peace maker."

Eubank, of Upper Drive, Hove, East Sussex, is on bail for allegedly breaching the peace, driving without due care and attention and for an unauthorised protest. In March, Eubank's solicitor Mark Stephens denied the truck protest was a publicity stunt. He said his client was a man of "high moral passion". He added: "He is not a man who courts media for no particular reason."