SHAME OF RACE ABUSE MOTHER OF TWO
shocking blast at bouncer during night out to wet baby’s head
A MUM-of-two racially abused a bouncer after she was chucked out of a pub during a celebration for a relative’s newborn baby.
Charlene Bentley-Gray, 32, used sickening racist language after she was ejected from a pub in Denton, Tameside, having had ‘an awful lot’ to drink.
She was caught on camera being held back by a pal as she abused the female member of door staff. In an impact statement read in court, the victim said: “This incident made me feel low. I can’t believe people still use this language in this day and age. it has made me feel I can’t attend work anymore.”
Bentley-Gray, of Mead Way Denton, Tameside, has now been ordered to pay the woman £250 compensation.
She pleaded guilty at Tameside Magistrates’ Court to racially-aggravated common assault. Bentley-Gray was also ordered to do 120 hours of unpaid community work.
The court heard that Bentley-Gray had been out celebrating the birth of a relative’s baby at a pub in Denton pub.
Prosecutor Martha Dowd told the court:
“The victim works as a door supervisor at the public house in Denton and she had been doing that for four months and had previously worked as a door supervisor for six years.
“She had been asked to remove the defendant due to some sort of altercation within the bar. She asked the defendant to leave and initially the defendant complied with no issues. However, when she got outside she ‘switched’ and according to witnesses started ‘going mad.’
“Her friend was trying to pull her away, but she was shouting at the victim. She was repeating the racial language.” Bentley-Gray claimed she could remember little of the incident. She denied being racist.
A probation report detailed in court read: “She has shown remorse they were out celebrating the birth of a baby in the family. She doesn’t normally drink and doesn’t remember a lot of the incident.
“It is not normal language and she has never used it before.”
District judge Judge Healy said: “You have behaved appallingly on the night in question the victim was just doing their job.”