Cleared! The property developer who thought calling someone a ‘black c***’ was not racist

A former billionaire who repeatedly called a binman a ‘black c**t’ has been cleared after he claimed: ‘I didn’t mean this in a racist way’. Simon Halabi, 58, also branded refuse collector Carl Thomas a ‘peasant’ and a ‘monkey’ when he stopped to pick up bags of recycling on Hay’s Mews, in Mayfair, on 23 February 2015. Halabi claimed his Bentley was blocked by Mr Thomas’s white van and was recorded shouting: ‘I will show you f***ing black c**t… I’ll…