Church court rejects Cambridge college bid to move slave trader memorial

Ruling says opposition to Tobias Rustat memorial at Jesus College chapel is based on false narrative'

A Cambridge college has been refused its application to remove a memorial to its 17th-century benefactor Tobias Rustat from the college chapel because of his links to the slave trade.

Jesus College argued that the memorial, in a prominent position on the west wall of the Grade I-listed chapel, should be moved to another site in the college because its presence was having a negative impact on the mission and ministry of the church.