Troublemaker hurled racist abuse at Six Bells pub door staff

A TROUBLEMAKER drunkenly hurled racist abuse and obscenities at two door security staff who refused him entry to a Lymington pub.

Andrius Urbanavicius branded one a “Polish b*stard” and called the other a “n*****” outside The Six Bells, Southampton Magistrates’ Court heard.

He also aimed a head-butt at the former – Bogdan Mihalache – and bellowed at other pub goers before being restrained and eventually taken to the ground.

Urbanavicius had previously denied two charges of racially aggravated common assault/beating, but failed to turn up to his trial at Southampton Magistrates’ Court.

It went ahead in his absence and he was found guilty of both counts.

The court was told Urbanavicius was clearly in drink when he approached the St Thomas Street watering hole on the evening of 3rd November last year.

He demanded to see Mr Mihalache’s identification, which he presented, but when asked to provide some of his own became defensive.

“He was obviously trying to be difficult,” Mr Mihalache told the court, adding he recognised Urbanavicius as someone whom he had refused entry to before because he was abusive and drunk.

After their initial conversation the defendant spotted some other people who had gathered outside and shouted “f*** you, what are you f***ing looking [at]?”

Because of that Mr Mihalache told Urbanavicius (34) that he was barred. But the defendant became animated so he grabbed his arm and held him against a nearby wall to calm him down.

“He kept on abusing me, saying he was going to ‘slit my neck’ and ‘call my brother’ and then he started shouting at my [fellow bouncer] calling him a ‘f***ing n*****’,” Mr Mihalache said.

“He kept on trying to struggle and get free and was saying and shouting ‘f***’ a lot and as I kept him against the wall, he attempted to head-butt me.

“His behaviour was disgusting,” Mr Mihalache, a Romanian, remarked.

His colleague, Lamin Touray said: “He was trying to resist us and struggle and at one point he deliberately and wilfully swung his head back and tried to make contact with Bogdan’s head, he tried to head-butt Bogdan.

“He verbally abused myself and Bogdan, he was calling Bogdan abusive words such as ‘you Polish b*stard’ and said ‘I bet you love living in Southampton with all your Polish friends’.”

Mr Touray continued: “Then he abused me verbally – I heard him call me a n***** three to five times. It was extremely nasty, hurtful and abusive and done to hurt me as much as possible because of the colour of my skin.”

PC Andrew McKenna arrived on the scene to investigate and found a highly intoxicated Urbanavicius being restrained on the ground by Mr Mihalache outside the Wetherspoon pub.

The officer’s body worn camera showed him telling the defendant he remembered being called to the pub before because of the defendant’s behaviour.

After he was arrested Urbanavicius told police in an interview he had been walking past the pub to get a kebab when the door staff grabbed and manhandled him. He also claimed they had told him he was not allowed within 100 yards of the pub and denied trying to head-butt them.

After announcing its guilty verdicts, the Bench issued a warrant for the arrest of Urbanavicius, of Emsworth Road, Lymington.