Berwick hotel worker fined for racially aggravated offence in row with boss
A former Berwick hotel worker who racially abused his boss during a row about wages has appeared in court.
Maxwell Morton was working at the King’s Arms Hotel on Hide Hill when the incident happened on June 25 last year.
The 20-year-old pleaded guilty to a charge of racially aggravated harassment when he appeared at Berwick Magistrates’ Court.
Prosecutor Stephen Davies told magistrates the defendant used a racial slur in an argument with Jagroop Dulai and threatened to burn down the hotel.
In mitigation, Ian O’Rourke told the court: “It ended up in an unseemly argument where he made threats and used that language. It could perhaps be put down to immaturity.”
Magistrates heard that he lost his job at the hotel but had since gained new employment and secured an apprenticeship.
The defendant, of Pine Avenue, Durham, was ordered to pay a fine, surcharge and court costs totalling £1,145.