The felling of a statue of slave trader Edward Colston was a violent act which wasn't protected by the European Convention on Human Rights, senior judges have ruled.
“Specifically, the circumstances in which the statue was damaged did not involve peaceful protest. The toppling of the statute was violent.
“Debate about the fate of the statue had to be resolved through appropriate legal channels, irrespective of a view that those channels were thought to have been slow or inefficient, and not by what might be described as a form of self-help.”The memorial to the slave trader was pulled from its plinth on June 7 2020, daubed in blue and red paint and rolled into Bristol harbour.
Defence lawyer Raj Chada, a partner at Hodge Jones & Allen, said: “We are disappointed by the Court of Appeal judgment."The clear view from an expert valuer, which we were prevented from relying upon during the trial, was that the value of the statue had increased exponentially after the toppling. The Attorney General’s reference and today’s decision doesn't affect the not guilty verdicts at trial, but clarifies an area of the law in the acquittal of one defendant, Rhian Graham.
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