JUDGE: 'You'd Prosecute If The Victim Was Black'

WESTMINSTER

A judge accused the Crown Prosecution Service of 'double standards' today (Weds) for failing to prosecute a drunk who allegedly racially abused an Irish cathedral worker.

District Judge Michael Snow suggested Jonathan Steed would have been charged if his victim had been black or eastern European.

The 43-year-old asked Noel Doyle where he was from before branding him an 'Irish bastard' and telling him to 'f*** off back to Ireland', the City of Westminster Magistrates' Court heard.

Slamming the decision to charge him with threatening behaviour instead of a more serious, racial offence, an exasperated District Judge Michael Snow asked: 'This is not racially aggravated?

'If it was Jamaican or Latvian, it would be racially aggravated,' he sai