A MAN who triggered a ‘melee’ outside a pub in Northgate Street, Chester, had lashed out after hearing racial abuse directed towards him, a court has heard.
Seyit Sahin, 24, and of Sealand Road, Chester, appeared at Chester Magistrates Court on Tuesday, November 10.
Sahin pleaded guilty to using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour with intent to cause fear or provoke unlawful violence.
Police attended Northgate Street at around 4pm on Sunday, October 4, after local authority CCTV captured a group of males fighting.
Teri O’Brien, prosecuting, said a report was made to police from one male who claimed he was being chased by a small group, including the defendant, outside the Bull and Stirrup pub.
Sahin was arrested at the scene following the incident.
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Adam Antoszkiw, defending, said that Sahin could be seen in the footage ‘gesticulating towards members of the public’.
This, Mr Antoszkiw said, was because ‘racist abuse had been levelled at him’ and he had wagged his finger and gesticulated in the direction of the person who had uttered it.
A man attempted to get in between the defendant and the abuser, but Sahin had then moved around him and ‘throws the first punch’.
A ‘melee’ then broke out, with the defendant ending up on the floor.
“I dare say he ends up worse off,” Mr Antoszkiw said.
The defence said this was ‘very much an isolated incident’ and that Sahin was ‘otherwise a very hardworking young man’.
Mr Antoszkiw urged magistrates to consider a fine adding it would be ‘an expensive night out but one I’m sure he will learn from’.
Magistrates agreed issuing a fine of £1,333, together with a surcharge of £533 and court costs of £85.
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