A judge has referred to his own experience of racist abuse in passing sentence on a man who called a mixed-race teenager an offensive name.

Judge Roger Scott told Kevin Cooney, 24, that he had been called racist names while he was abroad 30 years ago and he had never forgotten it.

"I am absolutely 100 per cent with the victim here who says he didn't like it,'' said Judge Scott.

Cooney had been walking along North Street, Keighley, in the early hours of June 3 last year when he called a 17-year-old boy an offensive name.

Prosecutor Joanne Butler-Savage said the teenager and his friend carried on their way joking, but Cooney then accused him of laughing at him.

"Without provocation, the defendant elbowed the complainant's friend out of the way and punched the complainant about the head and body,'' said Miss Butler-Savage.

The teenager was pushed into the railings and fell to the ground. One of the men with Cooney then began kicking the youth in the head.

Miss Butler-Savage said the victim suffered lumps to his head, neck and jaw pain and a bust lip.

Cooney, of Bracken Bank Way, Keighley, was arrested a month later and admitted he had drunk quite a lot of beer that night.

He claimed the teenager had walked straight through his group for no reason and he denied making any racist remarks.

Last month, however, Cooney pleaded guilty to a charge of racially aggravated common assault.

Judge Scott ordered Cooney to pay £200 compensation to the teenager as well as making him the subject of a 12-month community order which included 120 hours unpaid work.

He will also have to pay a further £200 costs.

Judge Scott warned Cooney that any breach of the orders he had made would mean him coming back to court and being sentenced to ten months in jail.