The Dr Thomas Guthrie statue at Edinburgh’s West Princes Street Gardens should be hauled down, according to an Edinburgh-born and raised abuse survivor David Smith.
Another Guthrie’s school abuse survivor, Fred, started a petition to remove the statue five months ago. Since then, his petition has garnered more than 1,000 signatures.
“There’s quite a lot of us [survivors] that want the statue removed. We want a sincere apology and we want them [the government] to acknowledge what we went through,” David said.
