A memorial to Queen Victoria in a West Yorkshire park has been defaced with the words 'racist' and 'slave owner'.
The monument in Woodhouse Moor, Hyde Park, Leeds has also been spray painted with the words 'educate', 'colonise', 'justice' and 'Black Lives Matter'.
The memorial - designed by Victorian sculptor George Frampton - features a large stone plinth with a sculptor of the monarch on top.
It was first erected outside Leeds Town Hall in 1905 and was later moved to another site in the city.
This is unfortunate, but of all people in the history of the past 1000 years, which single person (aside from religious figures) are there more public statues of than Queen Victoria?...
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