The world hadn't heard of Megan Sarah Louise Walton before Monday. Five days later and I am wishing I still hadn't heard of her. She's the 27-year-old who spewed that racist and foul-mouthed poison at the young Muslim woman Mehpara Khan. A mature drunken unemployed person of no fixed abode telling a young, non-drinking professional that she has no place in this country. 'Muslim B…. that needed to f… off” was her basic sentiment. That's the absolute senselessness of racism. Walton has since said she was sorry. I sincerely hope she is. But not as sorry as the rest of us New Zealanders, who embrace and respect difference in whatever form. I hope you can find some comfort in that Mehpara.

S Smith, Otumoetai.