Thieves sawed the life-sized sculpture from its plinth at Preston Park in Brighton.
All that remained when gardening staff arrived at the park yesterday morning was a lone foot.
Mr Ovett's tribute has been the victim of two previous attacks. Just six weeks after it was unveiled in 1987 vandals pushed it face down into the mud, and eight years later it was splattered with white paint.
During the nineties it was subjected to numerous humiliations by pranksters who stuck an Alf Garnett moustache on it, covered it in a woolly jumper and dressed it as a schoolgirl.
Update: A 44-year-old woman has been arrested and part of the statue has been recovered. Police believe the rest will probably be offered to scrapdealers. What a surprise.
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