A WOMAN injured after falling while apparently attempting to scale the wall of a high street bank may have been trying to stage a protest.

The woman, who is in her 20s, suffered a leg injury, after falling from the HSBC branch in Brecon town centre. She was was taken by ambulance to Abergavenny's Nevill Hall Hospital after falling.

Shocked bank staff called for an ambulance after the woman hit the ground just before 2pm on Tuesday September 24, while members of the public also tended to the woman and tried to comfort her.

The woman is said to have told a passer by who was comforting her that she had been trying to climb the wall to stage a protest.

HSBC was last year mired in scandal when it agreed to pay US authorities $1.9 billion dollars (£1.2 billion) in a settlement after a US senate report alleged it had been used a conduit for 'drug kingpins and rogue nations'. The bank apologised and admitted poor money laundering controls.

More generally banks have been at the centre of anti-capitalist protests and anger at big bonuses paid to bankers.

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