A man has been found guilty of racially abusing bouncers after they evicted him from a Wetherspoon pub on Derby Day last year.

Defence counsel for Sam Conrad, 23, of Farriers Road, Epsom, tried to argue that the evidence against him was tenuous and bouncers should be thick skinned enough not to be offended by verbal insults.

But the lead magistrate at South East Surrey Magistrates’ Court today said "the evidence we have heard is credible and convincing" and ordered Conrad to pay a total of £100 in compensation to two bouncers for his racial insults and provoking distress.

Conrad, who had pleaded not guilty, and a friend were evicted from the Assembly Rooms in Epsom High Street at about 10pm on June 2.

Witness Sean Carr, a black doorman who was working that night, said he pushed back one of the men as he came towards his colleague.

Mr Carr said: "That’s when one of the defendants said ‘watch out you bunch of pakis’."

He said they restrained the man over a small flowerbed wall until police came while the other man shouted abuse.

Mr Carr said: "He shouted out ‘paki watch your backs. He said he was going to come back to us."

He added: "I was offended. There’s no need for being called that."

His boss Peter Phillips, the mixed-race director of Security Solutions, said he was shocked that the men called them ‘f****** pakis’.

Under cross examination Mr Phillips said bouncers did not have to be robust and strong because the job involved talking and using restraining techniques.

To the defence lawyer, he said: "I’m sure you could become a member of security if you wanted to."

When asked if he was tougher than the average person, he said: "If you tell me the average fitness, I could do a gym test and find out."

Defence lawyer Mr Arsénio said his client’s co-defendant James Hutton, who has previously pleaded guilty to the same charges, was the only one to use racial insults.

Mr Arsénio said there was only ‘very tenuous evidence’ of these being aimed at Mr Phillips, who could be mistaken as Asian, but none in relation to Mr Carr and the rest of the white door staff.

He said there was also just a slim chance of provoking distress, adding: "We are talking about people who do this sort of activity day in, day out and are used to this sort of fracas occurring.

"How thin skinned are people these days? Particularly those engaged in the profession these two people are engaged in."

But Magistrate Michael Staples said the evidence against Conrad was compelling and the racial insults clearly caused distress because the witnesses were offended and shocked.

In addition to the compensation, he ordered Conrad to pay a £15 surcharge and £400 in costs but said a £200 fine would be written off because he had already spent three weeks in jail.