Bomb threat after radio host insults ‘darkie’ Annan

A TOP New Zealand radio presenter who made racist remarks about United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan was forced off the air yesterday by a bomb threat.

Police evacuated the Auckland radio studio of NewstalkZB 15 minutes before Paul Holmes’ breakfast news and talk show was due to end. For the next one-and-a-half hours, the station broadcast only music.

Local media reported a caller had phoned the station warning a bomb would go off if Holmes was not taken off the air.