Paisley which was vandalised twice with anti-racism graffiti has been restored. The monument of John Witherspoon, which stands outside the town’s University of the West of Scotland (UWS) campus, has been rebuilt to remove the spray painted slogans linked to the Black Lives Matter movement.
The statue at the High Street campus was targeted twice in a matter of days by vandals last month, who daubed the monument with the words “slave owner” and “Black Lives Matter”.
Graffiti including the names of people who campaigners claim were either killed by the police or died in custody - including Sheku Bayoh and Mark Duggan - were also scrawled on the statue plinth.Workers were spotted trying to remove the graffiti from the stone at the time, and the.
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