The Mayor of Bristol, Marvin Rees, met with the ‘Colston 4’ and even added his signature alongside theirs on a t-shirt donated by Banksy, Bristol Live can reveal.
The curious meeting, the circumstances of how it happened and the fall-out afterwards can now be revealed for the first time.
It involves negotiations between Banksy and the Mayor, claims of a secret art project in Bristol, and the animosity between the four people cleared of criminal damage in the case of the toppling of the statue of Edward Colston, and the Mayor who they say played a part in prosecuting them.
