A Leeds bouncer has spent his 30th birthday in the dock after he held a customer in a "chokehold" for throwing doughnuts in a nightclub.
A judge told Samir Hussain his "30th birthday present" was a suspended sentence as he let him leave the dock following a hearing at Leeds Crown Court on Thursday. The court had heard how Hussain, of Parkwood Way in Leeds, was working as security at The Old Red Bus Station in Vicar Lane, Leeds, on November 25 last year when the man was ejected by other staff members for throwing doughnuts at the bar area.
Prosecutor Bashir Ahmed said: "Earlier that night, the victim had attended a birthday party at a friend's where he had been drinking. The party then seemed to move on to where it [the incident] happened. It is right to say he went there, he was with a friend and recalled an incident of joining the queue to get into the club and then being treated differently to others and was put back in the queue a couple of times."
