'Disgusted' Islamophobic graffiti left on bus stop angers community

COMMUNITY leaders and councillors have expressed shock and outrage after Islamophobic graffiti was sprayed in South Bristol.

- Tristan CORK

The offensive words were painted on the bus stop on West Street in Bedminster, in front of the job centre, at some point before Monday evening.

Police have been alerted, and the graffiti has been reported to Bristol City Council, which is responsible for maintaining bus stops, but a group of residents did try to clean off the graffiti themselves on Monday evening.

A spokesperson for Way Out West, the community group made up of residents and business owners in the area, expressed shock at the vandalism, and said messages of this nature should not be tolerated.

ated. “It’s shocking and totally unacceptable. We’re a multicultural community in West Street, and there is no place for this in our community at all,” she said.