UNEQUAL UNDER THE LAW

HE won gold in the Special Olympics but is classed a “lunatic”.

Much to his mother’s horror, talented swimmer Walter Pallas, aged 28, is, in the eyes of the law, “a person of unsound mind”.

Yesterday, a distressed Philomena Pallas called for a change to the archaic law that brands people with special needs as lunatics — after she endured the indignity of hearing her Down Syndrome son referred to as such in court.