The Court of Appeal will be asked to clarify the law over “uncertainty” caused by the Edward Colston statue case, Attorney General Suella Braverman said on Wednesday.
On Jan. 5, four people involved in the toppling of the statue during a Black Lives Matter protest in June 2020—Milo Ponsford, 25, Jake Skuse, 36, Sage Willoughby, 21, and Rhian Graham, 29—were acquitted of causing criminal damage by a jury, despite their acknowledgement of involvement.
The trial heard that Ponsford and Graham brought ropes, which Willoughby passed around the statue’s neck, and Skuse goaded the crowd into rolling the statue 500 meters (1,640 feet) and throwing it into the water.
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