The protesters also wrote an offensive word under the statue in Glasgow's Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum.
Two protesters who smeared jam and porridge over a bust of Queen Victoria have been convicted of malicious mischief.
The pair, activists for campaign group This is Rigged, also spray-painted an offensive word on the plinth of the statue. The pair, who represented themselves, were found not guilty to a separate charge of behaving in a threatening or abusive manner. He said of the protest: "They shouldn't be doing it, this belongs to the city and they could have damaged it."
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