From Pavee Point
Last week in Athlone District Court while presiding over a case with a Traveller defendant Mr. Justice Seamus Hughes is reported as stating that:
“Nobody has indicated it to me, but I suspect he comes from a certain ethnic background that would give him even more form given the type of behaviour in which some of them engage. …As I’ve described it before, they are like Neanderthal men living in the long grass, abiding by the laws of the jungle.”
We condemn the comments of Judge Hughes. They reflect a prehistoric mind-set that has no place in modern Irish society. Everyone is entitled to a fair trial irrespective of your ethnic origin or the charges you face.
see also Breakingnews.ie - Pavee Point: Judge should quit over 'laws of jungle' Traveller comment
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