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Gazza pleads guilty to racial offense, fined
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TROUBLED former England player Paul Gascoigne has pleaded guilty to a racially aggravated public order offense and has been fined.
The former Tottenham and Lazio midfielder admitted using “threatening or abusive words or behavior” toward a black security guard in November at his stage show, “An Evening with Gazza,” in Wolverhampton, central England. The 49-year-old Gascoigne’s guilty plea came ahead of a trial at Dudley Magistrates’ Court which was due to start yesterday. Once one of England’s most talented players, Gascoigne has faced years of alcohol and mental health problems. Gascoigne was fined 1,000 pounds (US$1,300) after his guilty plea. District Judge Graham Wilkinson told him: “You sought to get a laugh from an audience of over 1,000 people because of the color of Mr Rowe’s skin. It is not acceptable to laugh words like this off as some form of joke.”
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