Racist slur was ‘a slip of the tongue’ says lawyer

A disgruntled businessman who telephoned a City law firm and called an operator a ‘p-ki’, told a court today (weds) it was just ‘a slip of the tongue’. Jonathan Sherwood, 54, left voicemails on the phones of Kemp Little LLP addressed to the chief operating officer Siddhartha Mankad after a series of unsuccessful legal actions in the High Court and in Austrian Courts. But giving evidence he explained that he was not a racist and told jurors at Inner London…