British slave owners’ family makes public apology in Grenada

Laura Trevelyan, a BBC correspondent who investigated her family's link to the slave trade, also pays 100,000 in reparations

An aristocratic British family has travelled to the Caribbean country of Grenada to publicly apologised for its ownership of more than 1,000 enslaved Africans and promise 100,000 in reparations.

Laura Trevelyan, a New York-based BBC correspondent who investigated her family's link to the slave trade, donated the money to the University of the West Indies (UWI).