A DRUNKEN customer at a Southampton nightclub shouted racist abuse at a doorman, the city crown court heard.

Kokulatharan Ponnuthurai, 32, also grabbed Fraser Scott’s jacket with one hand and grabbed his throat with the other before he was taken out of the Rhino Club in Waterloo Terrace.

Ponnuthurai, of Derby Road, Southampton, admitted racially aggravated assault and racially aggravated threatening words or behaviour and received a 12 month community order and told to do 100 hours unpaid work.