Judge’s knife crime remarks hit raw nerve

THE most senior criminal judge in the country has sparked controversy over his comments on knife crime and the immigrant community.

On Tuesday, Mr Justice Paul Carney gave a lecture to the Law Faculty of University College Cork, in which he outlined three broad types of manslaughter coming before the courts where knives were involved. These included circumstances involving the immigrant community which provoked an angry reaction.

“The immigrant community who do not integrate buy vodka and beer in an off-licence and sit around a table in somebody’s flat drinking. When a row breaks out there is invariably close to hand the knife which has been used in the preparation of the vegetables,” the judge said.