Published: 2013 February 27 20:48:33 (2933 Views)

Colin Brewer, an independent councillor for Wadebridge East, UK, who told a Disability Cornwall worker in Truro that children with disabilities ‘should be put down’ is facing calls to resign.

Although the comment was made in 2011, the local authority’s standards committee has only just resolved a complaint made by Disability Cornwall’s Theresa Court.

But campaigners have said the committee’s order that Mr Brewer write a letter of apology to the charity fell short.

‘I am writing to offer my wholehearted apology for the offence these remarks have clearly caused,’ Mr Brewer wrote in his apology letter.

‘While I meant no offence by my remarks to you I can see, in retrospect, that they were ill-judged and insensitive and should not have been made at all.’

Ms Court, who was on a charity stall when the comment was made, said she was ‘absolutely horrified’ by the ‘depraved comment’, which left her feeling ‘physically sick’.

Mr Brewer told BBC News he had been trying to provoke a reaction from charity workers in order to start a debate.

He added: ‘I have no intention of resigning. I don’t think I have done anything wrong. I have apologised.’

- Metro

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