John Rowland wrote:
Tony Martin is a hero who killed a pikey scumbag in
the dark and who shouldn't have been on his property.

And who cares about the ethnic
origin of the child he killed? (well, racists might, I suppose).

Is pikey a race? I thought it was a behaviour pattern.

The primary meaning of "pikey" is "Irish traveller", although it is
also used to mean "general scumbag".

Since Fred Barras was from an Irish traveller family, I rather assumed
that the OP was using the term in that sense...

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John Band
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