A councillor in Cornwall has apologised for telling a disability charity member that disabled children “should be put down” because they cost the taxpayer too much.
Independent member Colin Brewer, 68, made the comments to a Disability Cornwall worker at a stall in Truro on 2011, causing the charity to make a complaint to the authority’s Standards Committee.
According to the evidence, Brewer said: “Disabled children cost the council too much money and should be put down”.
Theresa Court, who was on the stall at the time, said she was “absolutely horrified” when she heard the “depraved comment”.
The Standards Committee ruled that Brewer write a letter of apology to the charity.
It read: “I am writing to offer my wholehearted apology for the offence these remarks have clearly caused.
“While I meant no offence by my remarks to you I can see, in retrospect, that they were ill-judged and insensitive and should not have been made at all.”
Councillor sorry for disabled children remarks
