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Felling of Bristol's Colston statue ruled as ‘violent act’

The toppling of the statue to slave trader Edward Colston was a violent act of criminal damage which is not protected by the European Convention on Human Rights, senior appeal judges have ruled.

The statue in Bristol was felled during a Black Lives Matter protest in June 2020, leading to the prosecution of four people involved.

The group, known as the Colston Four, were all acquitted of criminal damage by a jury, but faced a Court of Appeal hearing after a referral by then-Attorney General Suella Braverman.

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