BLM activist jailed for blowing €36,000 in donations intended for youth charity on Uber Eats and clothes

A prominent Black Lives Matter activist in the United Kingdom who used over £32,000 (€36,000) in donations intended for a youth charity to fund her lavish lifestyle has been jailed for two and a half years.

Xahra Saleem, 23, set up a GoFundMe page encouraging donations from the public ahead of a Black Lives Matter march in the southwest English city of Bristol in June 2020 which culminated in the toppling of a statue commemorating Edward Colston, a Bristol-based philanthropist who profited in his later years from the slave trade.

The page, which amassed donations totaling £32,344, stated that funds would be used for personal protective equipment (PPE) ahead of the march at the peak of the coronavirus pandemic, with leftover monies being pledged to Changing Your Mindset, a charity for disadvantaged youths based in the Bristol district of St. Paul’s which has a large African-Caribbean population.