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04/08/2006:
"Teachers criticise judge for 'trivialising' racial abuse"
A judge who attacked the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) for pursuing a case against a 10-year-old boy who was accused of shouting racist taunts in the playground has been criticised for trivialising the seriousness of racial abuse.The boy appeared before Judge Jonathon Finestein at Salford youth court after allegedly calling an 11-year-old boy a "Paki" and "bin Laden" last year.
The boy, from Irlam, Manchester, is also said to have chanted: "He is on the run, pull the trigger and shoot the nigger, five, four, three, two, one."
However, Justice Finestein said the case should not have reached the courts and described the decision to prosecute as "political correctness gone mad".
He said they were just "boys in the playground" and he used to be called "fat" at school but said the headteacher would have just given the children "a good clouting" and sent them on their way.
guardian.co.uk
