Cleared: BLM Supporter Accused Of Destroying RAF Memorial Poppy Wreaths

A Black Lives Matter supporter, accused of deliberately destroying poppy wreaths at an RAF Bomber Command WWII memorial, was cleared of the charges today.

Soulman Cosmic Freedom, 59, previously shouted: “I am innocent,” from the dock at Southwark Crown Court, where he was originally due to return for trial on June 1, 2026.

Freedom, of Beech Avenue, Acton arrived at court on that occasion wearing a forensic-style fully-length body overall adorned to the rear with an image of murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence and the words: ‘Black Lives Matter’.

He changed out of the outfit for the court hearing itself and also swapped his ‘Black Lives Matter’ facemask for a plain white alternative.

Freedom was charged with causing criminal damage to the poppy wreaths at the Green Park memorial, belonging to the City of Westminster, on June 30, 2024.

The memorial, which features seven bronze statues of Bomber Command airmen, was unveiled by the late Queen Elizabeth II on June 28, 2012 to commemorate the 55,573 aircrew who lost their lives.

The court came to the conclusion Freedom was not mentally fit to properly enter a plea to the charge.

The Crown Prosecution Service offered no evidence and a not guilty verdict was entered.