Lyra, the judge in the case quite clearly said he believed the attack was not racially motivated.
However, I don't think it's true to say there was no SUGGESTION that the attack was racist.
This from the Observe, Dec 16 last year:
Sarfraz, whose leg, nose and cheekbone were broken
during an assault by five men in January last year,
disputed trial judge Mr Justice Henriques's ruling that
racism had nothing to do with it.
Moments before a chase involving the student, his friends
and a group of white men outside the Majestyk nightclub in
Leeds, one of the whites said: 'Do you want some, Paki?'. 'I
took that as meaning, "Do you want a fight",' Sarfraz tells
tonight's BBC Panorama programme. 'I just thought they're
racist scum, so I just ignored them because there were too
many of them and I'm not a trouble-causer.' |
