Dominoes player wins case over ‘racist’ noise ban in London square

Ernest Theophile said meeting friends in Maida Hill Market Square helped combat social isolation. Photograph: David Levene/The Guardian

A dominoes player has won a court case over a ban against him and his friends playing the game “loudly” that he said was racially motivated.

Ernest Theophile took Westminster city council to court after it granted an injunction banning social gatherings in Maida Hill Market Square in north-west London.