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Former Yorkshire chairman Robin Smith last night condemned the department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport’s handling of the Azeem Rafiq scandal as ‘monstrously unjust’.
Smith also accused select committee chair Julian Knight of trying to prevent the truth from coming out.
Rafiq was permitted to make allegations against former Yorkshire colleagues without risk of legal redress due to parliamentary privilege, and the committee published his 57-page witness statement to an employment tribunal. But the independent report into his complaints compiled by law firm Squire Patton Boggs has not been released.
Azeem Rafiq testified in front of the DMCS committee as MP's probed his racial abuse claims
Rafiq told the select committee that he was released by Yorkshire due to his race and his complaints about racism, a claim which went unchallenged and elicited sympathy from the MPs, despite the fact that the independent report they were given before the hearing had reached the opposite conclusion.
As the Yorkshire Post reported yesterday, Squire Patton Boggs concluded that Yorkshire’s decision to release Rafiq in 2018 was ‘purely a cricketing one’ due to ‘his form and his attitude,’ adding that ‘race and religion played no
