The woman at the centre of an alleged racist incident at Nottingham Castle says that a meeting is being held there next month to try and begin "healing wounds". Panya Banjoko, who curated an exhibition at the attraction, claimed her two grandchildren were the victims of a hate incident in the castle grounds on August 17 last year.
Ms Banjoko said that she had spent the afternoon there with her four grandchildren and her daughter as they saw the exhibition she curated, entitled "Don't Blame the Blacks". During that afternoon, a child was alleged to have racially abused two of Ms Banjoko's grandchildren, then aged seven and 11.
But Panya Banjoko says that when she raised the incident with a member of the senior management team at Nottingham Castle, she was met with "aggressive" behaviour and "kettled" into a corner. Nottinghamshire Live recently saw the full internal investigation into the matter, which found that several staff needed more training in handling such incidents.
