The Attorney General says she is considering referring a case to the Court of Appeal, after four people were acquitted of criminal damage after a statue of the slave trader Edward Colston was pulled down. wizbates reports.
The four did not deny being involved in the incident, but argued it was not an offence to remove a statue which they regarded as a hate crime.
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