‘Sorry I’m racist – it’s Alf Garnet’s fault’

An NHS splint maker was an ‘old school racist’ who told one patient: ‘Your baby looks like a golliwog’, a tribunal has found. John Skelton, who made braces and other prostethic devices for University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust, called an half Iranian colleague a ‘chocolate tart.’ Colleagues were shocked too when he sighed: ‘I’ve been working like a n*****’ Skelton blamed his racism on 1970s TV characters like Alf Garnet who commonly made offensive remarks in the sit com…