Liam Neeson 'airbrushed from Queen's University prospectus'

Liam Neeson has been removed from a university prospectus. Photo / Getty Images

Liam Neeson has been removed from a university prospectus following his admission that he wanted to kill an innocent black man in revenge for a friend's rape.

The Hollywood actor featured in the "heritage and heroes" section of the Queen's University Belfast student prospectus in 2018 and 2019 but was quietly airbrushed from the 2020 edition, it is claimed.

BBC Radio Ulster's Nolan Show said it had received "inside information" from a source that Neeson was scheduled to be in this year's prospectus for new students, but "an instruction was given for him to be removed".

The actor was widely condemned when he admitted last month that he went out armed with a cosh to look for "a black b------" to kill.

He said he felt a thirst for revenge after finding out a close female friend had been sexually assaulted.

"My immediate reaction was did she know who it was? No. What colour were they? She said it was a black person," he said.

"I went up and down areas with a cosh, hoping I'd be approached by somebody - I'm ashamed to say that - and I did it for maybe a week, hoping some black b------d would come out of a pub and have a go at me about something, you know? So that I could kill him."

Neeson made the comments during an interview to promote Cold Pursuit, his latest film, in which his character seeks revenge for his son's murder.

He later denied being racist but said he had simply been honest and that people should stop pretending to be politically correct.

The actor enrolled at Queen's in 1971, reading physics and computer science but left to work for Guinness before graduating.

In 2009, he received an honorary doctorate from the university for his Outstanding Contribution and Service to the Arts.

Queen's University did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

This article originally appeared on the Daily Telegraph.