Lawyers aghast over racial comments
By Marcus Timothy,WNS Auckland Correspondent
AUCKLAND - Auckland lawyers are aghast at comments made by a District Court judge as he denied bail to an Asian man. They are accusing Judge Thomas Everitt of racism, after he refused bail to a man facing methamphetamine and ecstasy charges. He said the defendant would be able to get false travel documents, because 'in New Zealanders eyes people of Chinese extraction or race are difficult to identify, facially and by name'.Auckland QC Peter Williams says the comments are not acceptable coming from a judge.He says Chinese people generally come to New Zealand to work hard and integrate. Williams says the accused man is actually Malaysian rather than Chinese, and has lived in New Zealand for three years.
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