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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Alahna Kindred

Racist dolls row landlady defies police to put dolls back on display

A pub landlady has defied authorities and put more offensive dolls on display days after police seized 20 of them as part of an investigation into a hate crime.

Benice Ryley runs The White Hart Inn, in Grays, Essex, where they have long displayed a collection of the dolls - claiming they had been gifts from customers over the years.

Golliwog dolls have long been accepted as deeply offensive to Black communities. Images from the pub show some of the dolls being hung by their necks from the top of the bar.

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