SCOTS radio presenter and former footballer Alan Brazil has been found to have breached broadcasting rules by suggesting a Glasgow rat infestation was the fault of Asian immigrants storing rice.
The TalkSport presenter made the comments on Alan Brazil’s Sports Breakfast, recounting what he said an acquaintance had told him.
He said: “Parts of cities have changed. Because different people move in. And there’s a lot of people there, let’s say from Asia, you know from that part of the world. But they don’t, with rice and stuff, they don’t, they don’t store it properly.
“He’s social housing this guy, and he said, ‘you can’t believe the rat infestation we’ve got there’.
“And he was telling me people just a little bit ignorant when they come in, it’s a little bit damp and stuff like that, and where they store the food and stuff, he said it’s horrendous at the moment.”
Brazil has been found in breach of Ofcom rules regarding the broadcast of offensive material. TalkSport told Ofcom that “there was absolutely no intent to cause any offence”.
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