Camera footage captures the moment Kill the Bill rioter attacks police officer with a skateboard

‘I know you are a human being..... I did do that, yes’.

Footage has been released of a woman attacking police officers and smashing a window of a police station during the Kill the Bill protest in Bristol last year.

Mariella Gedge-Rogers, 27, of Clifton, has been found guilty of being part of a group which used or threatened violence and together, caused others to fear for their personal safety by a jury at Bristol Crown Court

The charges relate to scenes in the city centre following the Kill the Bill on March 21 last year.

Footage taken from officers’ body worn cameras, CCTV and mobile phones were played to the jury during the trial.

They show Gedge-Rogers throw a traffic cone at police officers, hit an officer on the head with a skateboard and hurl items from the roof of Bridewell Police Station.

She was also shown to repeatedly strike the front window of the station with her skateboard before passing it to a man for him to do the same.

On the footage she can be heard telling a police officer ‘I know you are a human being..... I did do that, yes’ when asked why she attacked him with the skateboar

Gedge-Rogers was arrested six days after the incident after an image of her was released to the media and through social media channels.

She will be the fifteenth person to be sentenced in connection with the riot, which followed a peaceful protest against against the controversial Government bill.

To date, the 13 people sentenced have been jailed for a combined total of 51 years and eight months.

Earlier this month, BristolWorld revealed the cost of policing the operation was £760,151, which included the cost of damage to buildings and vehicles.

Detective Superintendent James Riccio said: “Mariella Gedge-Rogers did not deny taking part in the horrible events in Bristol city centre that night but claimed she acted alone and not as part of a group.

“The evidence presented to the jury however clearly showed her joining forces with others on the roof of the police station to hurl missiles at officers.

She was also captured handing her skateboard, which she had used as a weapon, to another individual for them to use.

“The jury were subsequently left with little choice but to conclude she was not acting alone but was part of a violent mob.”