In the case of R v Ponsford and Others (2022), the jury was asked to consider whether four Black Lives Matter protesters were guilty of criminal damage when they used ropes to pull down a statue of Edward Colston, a seventeenth-century slave-trader. The monument was then tipped into Bristol harbour.
The action of the protesters, the so-called ‘Colston Four’, gained front page headlines. The jury was told, by counsel for the defendants, that a decision to acquit would ‘reverberate around the world’ and be ‘on the right side of history’.
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