Three people have been sentenced for their roles after public disorder at the KIll The Bill protest in the city last year. Bristol Crown Court heard the three were caught up in trouble which flared outside Bridewell Police Station on March 21.
On that day thousands of people took to the streets of the city to march and then sit down outside the police station. The peaceful protest was against a controversial Government bill curtailing the right to protest.
"Kill the Bill" campaigners were against the proposed Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, giving police and the Home Secretary increased powers to stop protests. It also made a special new law to protect monuments and statues, in the wake of the toppling of the statue of Edward Colston, with the crime of damaging them punishable by up to ten years in prison.
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