A man has been sentenced after racially abusing staff at the Grand Burstin Hotel in Folkestone last year.

Nicholas Dean, 47, from Marton in Cleveland, near Middlesbrough, was arrested in December after an incident broke out at the hotel in which Dean was acting aggressively to staff, racially abusing a manager and making threats.

He was found guilty by Folkestone Magistrates on June 3 after being charged with using racially aggravated, threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour, with intent.

Magistrates sentenced Dean to a 12 month community order with a supervision requirement, a six month alcohol treatment order and was also ordered to carry out 100 hours of unpaid community work and pay £100 compensation to the victim and £750 costs.