TWO protesters have been sentenced after staging a protest at a Scottish museum by vandalising a bust of Queen Victoria.
Sorcha Ní Mháirtín, 31, and Hannah Taylor, 24, carried out a demonstration against food poverty at Glasgow’s Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in March.
We told how the pair, activists for campaign group This is Rigged, poured porridge and a jar of jam over the head of the marble bust of Queen Victoria.
They also spray-painted “c***” in pink paint on the plinth below.
Martin and Taylor were found guilty of a charge of malicious mischief following a trial at Glasgow Sheriff Court last month.
Sheriff Simone Sweeney ordered Taylor, of the city's Drygate, to carry out 80 hours of unpaid work at a sentencing hearing on Monday.
Martin, of Shawlands, was told to pay £300 compensation to the art gallery.
In a video of the protest played during the trial, Martin is heard saying: "We refuse to be dragged back to the Victorian era."
She told the court: "I was forced into taking action and I took no reckless or thoughtless action – I sought to express my rights to protest."
The charity Glasgow Life, which runs the art gallery museum, paid around £600 to repair the statue and its plinth.
