At least she didn't damage a statue of Churchill
They did things differently then.On 14 November 1909, Theresa Garnett, a Suffragist, "assaulted Winston Churchill at the Bristol Temple Meads railway station with a dogwhip, cutting his face. Arrested, she was sentenced to a month in prison at the HM Prison Bristol for disturbing the peace (Churchill did not press charges for the assault itself)." (A colleague of hers smashed a window at the Colston Hall - a tad premature that)Tory "policing minister Kit Malthouse has defended plans to increase the maximum sentence for defacing a statue to 10 years, saying the current legislation ignores their “emotional or symbolic value”."
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