No racial bias here

Wellington rugby player Losi Filipo has been discharged without conviction for an assault charge against four people. This surprising court decision, among other things, brings into question the efficacy of Lizzie Marvelly’s September 17 opinion piece in which she suggests racial bias in the courts’ treatment and sentencing of Nikolas Delegat and Hautahi Kingi. We should stand by for Marvelly’s retraction or cone of silence, the later the most likely outcome. Bruce Eliott, St Heliers.