A police officer has been sacked for gross misconduct. His offence? Racist remarks made while off duty in a pub – that traditional sanctuary of the sharp and unguarded tongue – captured by the Panorama programme filming undercover. Mr Neilson, dismissed over what were described as ‘highly racist and discriminatory remarks’ about different ethnic groups, protested that the undercover reporter had ‘breached his human rights’ and had been ‘egging me on’. He’d had eight or nine pints of Guinness – and wasn’t, he said, a ‘drinker’. His body-worn camera footage, he insisted, proved that on duty he treated everyone ‘with the utmost respect’.

Racist remarks made while off duty in a pub – that traditional sanctuary of the sharp and unguarded tongue

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