Steve Radford has contributed to a major feature in the Independent 24th Feb and has highlighted levels of homophobia in Merseyside and the lack of press coverage of this murder reinforces those attitiudes,m he is quoted below:
"Steve Radford, of the Liberal Party, who has been on the city council for three decades and has campaigned for the Gay Village, is saddened that Mr Causer’s death has failed to generate the same sense of nationwide outrage as that of the black teenager Anthony Walker, who was killed in a racist attack as he crossed a park in Huyton in 2005.
Though hundreds crammed into the church for Mr Causer’s funeral, and thousands more signed books of condolence, campaigners including Mark Feehily from Michael’s favourite band Westlife, are angry that no one seems to be listening.
“It does make you question our social values. We had a lot of positive comments made about the family of Anthony Walker, but here we had a tragedy which is homophobic but it is the word which will not speak its name"
Cllr Steve Radford led calls at last nights LGBT special meeting for an equivalent to the Stepehn :Lawrence Inquiry, we should not accept a young man takes part in an attack leading to death walks away "scott free" the message is its ok to murder gay people in supposed self defence - the minority of 2 in the jury may reflect a hard core of prejudice and not justice
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