Home secretary saves face after calling Huddersfield Convicts “Sick Asian Paedophiles”
The defence comes after The Guardian released an extensive piece about implicit racism in The UK.
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Home secretary Sajid Javid today defended his position after his tweet in October in which he pointed out the ethnicity of the people arrested in the child grooming case in Huddersfield. The tweet bashing Asians was “These sick Asian paedophiles are finally facing justice.”
The statement which attracted criticism from several MPs, was discussed along with other matters on BBC Radio 4’s today programme. Javid called his comments “absolutely appropriate.”
Speaking about the issue on-air he said: “Any normal person looking at the recent convic