Racist attack on family’s takeaway in Limerick ‘unacceptable’

An attack on a takeaway run by a Pakistani family, in which racist slogans were daubed on the front of the premises, was outrageous and unacceptable in a civilised society, said a judge yesterday.

Mark Hobbs, an English man who moved to the town of Kilmallock, Co Limerick, painted slogans including “murderers out”.

He had previously threatened to kill the owner of Megabites, Ali Aslan, with a kitchen knife.