A statue of a Jamaican playwright and actor has been vandalised and attacked with bleach.
Avon and Somerset Police are investigating the attack on the monument to Alfred Fagon, which was erected in 1987 in the St Pauls area of Bristol.
The incident involving a corrosive substance being poured on to the bust and is thought to have happened on Tuesday or Wednesday.
It comes after Black Lives Matter anti-racism crowds tore down a statue of slave trader Edward Colston in the city on Sunday.
Fagon was born in Jamaica and was a member of the Windrush generation, coming to England as an 18-year-old in 1955.
He settled in Bristol, where he forged a career first as a celebrated actor in the 1960s and 70s, and then as a playwright and theatre director.
He died in 1986 and he was the first black person to have a statue erected in their honour in the city.
The annual Alfred Fagon Award was named after him and is for playwrights of Caribbean or African descent, resident in the UK.
A police spokeswoman said officers in St Pauls were appealing for witnesses to the vandalism.
“The incident, which seems to have left the statue covered with an unknown substance, had not previously been reported to police,” she said.
“It’s not clear when it happened but officers have recorded the incident and are making inquiries with Bristol City Council to clarify ownership and establish whether the statue has suffered permanent damage.”
