Woman cleared by court for coconut placard at rally

A teacher who carried a placard astatine a pro-Palestinian protestation depicting Rishi Sunak and Suella Braverman arsenic coconuts has been recovered not blameworthy of a racially-aggravated nationalist bid offence.

Marieha Hussain, 37, of High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire denied the complaint astatine Westminster Magistrates' Court connected Friday.

She carried a representation showing the faces of the past Prime Minister and Home Secretary superimposed connected coconuts nether a thenar histrion successful November 2023.

Her defence said the placard was not racist, but satirical and humorous.

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