The two attacks on Lee Marklew in Brownhills took place two months apart and several months after the culprit racially insulted a bouncer while trying to prevent him from entering another pub from which he had also been banned .

Dishon Roberts, aged 24, made the lives of pub owner Mr Marklew and bouncer Tokunbo Adejuigbe “abject misery”, Wolverhampton Magistrates’ Court heard on Friday.

Roberts, of Brownhills High Street, admitted abusing Mr Adejuigbe on December 30 last year, after the defendant left the register in Leicester Street, Walsall at around 4am.

Roberts tried to return to the pub shortly afterwards, but Mr Adejuigbe’s colleague told him it was closing for the night and he should leave, prosecutor Lauren Allman told the court on Friday.

He refused to leave and grabbed the man’s high visibility vest, removing him from the room. Mr Adejuigbe rushed to his colleague’s aid, recognizing Roberts as someone who had previously been excluded.

“He rushed to separate them. At this point the defendant began to make racial slurs at him,” Miss Allman said.

He told Mr Adejuigbe to “go back to your country, you fucking black man, go back to Africa”, the court heard.

He continued: “I’m going to knock you out, I’m going to kill you, I’m going to stab you.”