Trader’s drunken race rant

A drunken City trader who called a hotel security guard a ‘smelly black man’ has been spared jail. Hicham Yahia, 35, was seen acting ‘erratically’ in the lobby of The Aloft London Excel, in Royal Victoria Dock, shortly after 5pm on 7 October last year. The security manager recognised Yahia from previous incidents at the hotel and asked him to leave the reception area, Snaresbrook Crown Court heard. Prosecutor Helen Owen said Yahia ‘appeared to be ranting and raving’ about…