Hitchin's Black Lives Matter movement have vowed not to let racists win, after their Hitchin display was targeted and defaced.

The display on Bedford Road, outside Christchurch, has mostly been cleaned up after the attack, but evidence of the spray paint intended to disfigure images celebrating Black Britons, including Marcus Rashford, still remain.

However, despite their public exhibition in Hitchin to promote Black Britons being vandalised by racists, the town's BLM group and the church have promised to continue to celebrate the contribution so many have made, including highlighting Rashford's social campaigning.

Tony Williams, part of the town's BLM group, and chairperson of the Hitchin Diversity and Culture organisation said: "Seeing the news about the mindless and racially motivated attack on the Black Britons display that Eddy Selby and the team at Christchurch had put on, we at Hitchin diversity and culture feel sickened.

"We will not allow the hate to reign.

"We will work together to put on something bigger and better to celebrate the Black community of North Herts and around the UK and acknowledge those who have done amazing things."

A poster that has been shared by the church next to a picture of Rashford - which still shows traces of aerosol from the attack - says: "We are a welcoming church, even to those who defaced posters.

"If you want to learn more come and talk to us."

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Police are looking for an offender or offenders who defaced the BLM exhibition at Christchurch Methodist Church in Bedford Road with spray paint last month.

If you have any information about the damage to the Black Lives Matter display in Hitchin call 101 or you can contact the investigating PC directly via email at [email protected].

Read Nub News' in-depth interview with Hitchin's Black Lives Matter movement here