Oxford Union president Brendan McGrath resigns after blind student forcibly removed from debate event

The Oxford Union president has resigned after a blind student was forcibly removed from a debate event by a security guards.

Postgraduate student Ebenezer Azamati was escorted from the venue by a security guard when he tried to return to a seat before the debate last month.

Union president Brendan McGrath said he had resigned because it was his "job to ensure that every Member feels welcome at the Oxford Union".

"For all of my shortcomings, and all of my mistakes, I apologise profusely and unqualifiedly," he wrote in a statement on the debating society’s Facebook page on Tuesday night.

Mr Azamati, an international relations scholar from Ghana, said his treatment left him feeling "unwelcome in the union, Oxford and even the country".

He successfully appealed on Saturday against what he told the BBC were claims of "false violent disorder" by the union.

The society operates independent of the university and has hosted speakers and debates since 1823.