“after being detained by a steward, he said: "It wasn't a racial thing, it just happened"
Let me see if I remember this correctly.
’Well, he would say that, wouldn’t he!’.
But did you miss this:
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Magistrate Mervyn Mandell added: "We have in the circumstances found the racial element was there."
Van driver Panteli, of Norwich, was fined £500, which was increased by £100 for the racial element, and told to pay £135 in costs.”