Chelsea fan denies he’s a racist

A former Northern Ireland policeman who is one of three men sought in relation to an alleged racist incident involving Chelsea football fans on a Paris Metro train, has apologised for his involvement.

But Richard Barklie, 50, insisted he is not a racist. The former RUC and PSNI officer, from Carrickfergus, is a director withthe World Human Rights Forum, and has also worked supporting victims of the Troubles.

He is one of the three men whose images were released by Scotland Yard as part of an investigation into a group of fans who allegedly pushed a black man off the train and chanted a racist song on Tuesday.