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A privately-educated Labour councillor who hurled a tirade of 'abhorrent' racist and Islamophobic abuse at a Wetherspoons pub doorman has been fined and ordered to pay compensation.

Millionaires' son George Rist, 28, had to resign as a town councillor in Monmouth, South Wales, after being banned for life from every pub in the town over the incident.

Today, he appeared in court to be sentenced after pleading guilty to racially and religiously aggravated harassment.

Newport Magistrates' Court heard Rist abused doorman Mahdi Sayid outside Monmouth's King's Head pub on December 30 last year — just nine days after he was elected by a five-vote margin.

Prosecutor Mike Williams said Mr Sayid was asked at around 11.15pm on the night in question to speak with a customer who was being 'rowdy'.

The customer, Rist, had initially appeared sociable towards staff, but refused to leave when asked. Eventually he stepped outside the pub, then started to be abusive towards Mr Sayid.

Rist told the victim: 'F***this, f*** you guys, merry Christmas and a happy new year', the court heard.

Mr Sayid, who was with his colleague, responded: 'We wish you a happy new year as well.'

Rist then walked away, but turned around and started shouting: 'F*** you and f*** where you have come from.'

Mr Sayid's colleague replied: 'What do you mean? He's from England.'

Rist went on: 'Is he f***, he's black, he's from Somalia or Zimbabwe.'

At this point, someone who had been watching on told Rist: 'Stop being a c*** and go home.'

But Rist continued to be abusive, making an offensive remark about the Prophet Muhammad before walking away.

As the prosecutor read the obscene words, the former councillor winced in the dock.

Mr Sayid, who describes himself as a black British Muslim with Somalian heritage, said he felt 'disgusted' by the 'abhorrent racism', which he believed was a 'calculated outburst of abuse'.

After he learned Rist had recently been elected as a councillor, he reported the matter to police.

In his police interview, Rist accepted making the comments and said he had gone out drinking that night after his parents encouraged him to do so because his grandmother was dying.

Mr Williams said: 'He told police he had never done anything like this before and that he was ashamed and disgusted with himself.

'His head was in his hands when he heard the comments he had made.'

Rist, of Priory Street in Monmouth, had no previous convictions.

Darren Bishop, mitigating, said that at the time of the incident his client had recently learned his grandmother was going to die at any moment and that his mother had been diagnosed with chronic lymphocytic leukaemia.

Mr Bishop said: 'You can imagine the atmosphere around the family home at the time.

'Rist was drinking five to six pints after work, five to six times a week. On December 30 he was encouraged by his parents to leave the family home and had gone to a local pub where he drank to excess.'

Mr Bishop described Rist as a 'high-functioning alcoholic in full-time employment who was drinking in

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