‘Racist’ lawyer claims he was set up

A solicitor accused of making a series of racist remarks at a lawyer’s function at the High Court has claimed he is being framed. Victor Stockinger, 61, told one Afghani lawyer to go home and ‘educate the Taliban,’ and asked another ‘So you think you’re Jewish,’ it is claimed. A diversity expert said she was ‘scared’ when he said ‘Africans were no good at business’ and Indians and Europeans had ‘made the Congo civil.’ But in heated exchanges at the…