Convicted anti-abortion campaigner ‘inviting consensual conversation’
Livia Tossici-Bolt told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme she was ‘not there to make any woman unhappy’.
An anti-abortion campaigner who was convicted of breaching a public spaces protection order outside an abortion clinic has claimed she was “inviting consensual conversation”, as her lawyer said he and his team were “exploring all legal options”.
Livia Tossici-Bolt told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme she was “not there to make any woman unhappy”.
The 64-year-old was handed a two-year conditional discharge at Poole Magistrates’ Court on Friday.
The case involved Tossici-Bolt, a retired medical scientist from Bournemouth, holding a sign saying “Here to talk, if you want” on two days in March 2023.
Speaking about her conviction, she said: “I was really disappointed because it’s nothing to do with protesting.
“It was purely inviting consensual conversation and I think in a public space everybody can do that.
“I was not there to express my views.
“I was there to offer free conversation, consensual conversation, to anyone who wanted to speak to me and not on the topics I want to speak, I was there to listen.
