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Nev Ayling & Ryan Fahey

Pensioner wins court case after issued jail threat for 'playing dominoes too loudly'

A black pensioner has won a court fight to prove his racial equality rights were ignored when he was threatened with jail following complaints that he and his pals play dominoes too loudly.

Ernest Theophile, 74, and a group of elderly friends have been gathering at Maida Hill Market Square in north London for the past 12 years.

At the square they "chat, socialise and play dominoes, cards and backgammon".

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