Statue of UK slave trader toppled by BLM protesters to go on public display

Black Lives Matter protesters toppled the statue and rolled it into a dock in Bristol (Ben Birchall/PA)

The toppled statue of slave trader Edward Colston is to go on public display in Bristol in the UK.

The bronze memorial to the 17th-century merchant was pulled down from its plinth during a Black Lives Matter protest on June 7 last year in the wake of the murder of George Floyd in the US.