Some 100 party supporters carrying banners and placards gathered on Wednesday afternoon at the high commission premises.
They shouted slogans such as “Homes will burn if anything happens to (Khaleda Zia)”, “I won’t let my leader be imprisoned”.
The Britain chapter’s President MA Malique has admitted some protesters entered the high commission and vandalised the photos of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
“We went there to hold a peaceful protest and submit a memorandum. But the high commission officials declined to accept the memo,” he said, speaking to bdnews24.com.
“The refusal enraged some people and they ripped off the photos and smashed them.”
London Metropolitan Police have arrested at the scene Nasir Ahmad, the president of the UK chapter of the BNP’s volunteer wing, Jatiyatabadi Swechchhasebak Dal.
A staffer at the mission told bdnews24.com the demonstrators were "very aggressive and arrogant" and threatened to beat the embassy staffers, deployed outside to watch over the rally, if they came close to them.
Malique said they had taken permission from proper authorities to demonstrate in front of the UK Prime Minister’s Office at Downing Street from 4am to 6am local time on Thursday against the ‘Bangladesh government-ordered verdict’.
