The former England football player Paul Gascoigne leaves court after pleading guilty to racially aggravated abuse Darren Staples/ReutersPaul Gascoigne has been fined £1,000 for making a racist comment to a black security guard at a public event. The former England player humiliated Errol Rowe, who had been assigned to protect him during his show, An Evening with Gazza, by asking him, “Can you smile please, because I can’t see you?”, Dudley magistrates’ court heard yesterday. District Judge Graham Wilkinson told 49-year-old Gascoigne: “You sought to get a laugh from an audience of over 1,000 people because of the colour of Mr Rowe’s skin.”He pleaded guilty to the racially aggravated public order offence and was ordered to…

Source: The Times September 19, 2016 16:03 UTC