A Broughty Ferry man who racially abused a police officer and pub doorman was told he had let down “himself, Dundee and Scotland”.
Mark Allan told the English officer: “Go back to your own country”, after being arrested for shouting racist remarks at Clark’s Bar employee Jeremy Soden.
Dundee Sheriff Court was told that Allan, who was drunk at the time, had tried to enter the bar at around 11.30pm but was turned away by Mr Soden.
He had become agitated and started shouting racist abuse at the doorman telling him to go “back to England where you belong”.
Mr Soden contacted the police, who traced Allan on Reform Street, where he began to remonstrate with PC White, telling him to “go back to your own country”.
George Donnelly, defending, said his client had had “far too much to drink” and “apologised unreservedly” to the two men.
He said: “That is not an excuse, but is the only explanation for this spectacular fall from grace.
“The doorman quite properly refused him entry. He dealt with that by using the language that he used.
“It is utterly out of character and his contrition is genuine.”
Sheriff Alastair Brown said: “Scotland claims to be a civilised place where people from many different cultures can come and reside.
“In abusing these gentlemen and using what you perceived to be their ethnic Englishness as terms of abuse, you not only let yourself down, you let Dundee down and you let Scotland down.
“In these times of heightened national awareness this is not acceptable to the court.”
Allan, 42, of Nursery Road, admitted behaving in a threatening and abusive manner by shouting, swearing, uttering threats of violence and uttering racially-offensive comments to Jeremy Soden and PC Shaun White on North Lindsay Street and Reform Street on April 19.
He was ordered to complete 100 hours of unpaid work.