An injured man assaulted two taxi drivers, damaged their cars and hurled racist abuse at them when they delayed his flight from a fight.

Damien Scanlon lashed out after he was asked to get out of one cab and go to the front of a queue of taxis.

The 26-year-old remembered little of the Huddersfield town centre attack after downing a cocktail of beer and Jagerbombs.

He was warned he could face jail after he pleaded guilty to two charges of racially-aggravated assault and two allegations of racially-aggravated criminal damage.

The incident happened at around 2.30am on January 31.

Scanlon, of Long Lane in Dalton, went to the taxi rank on Cross Church Street. He got in taxi driver Liaquat Ali’s car, knelt down and said: “F*****g P*** take me”.

Prosecutor Andy Wills told Kirklees magistrates: “Mr Ali informed the defendant he needed to go to the taxi in front of him.

“He (Scanlon) alighted from the vehicle but was aggressive and he (Mr Ali) could clearly hear the word P*** being used a number of times.

“Once the defendant was outside he started kicking the wheel of his vehicle.”

As Mr Ali went to inspect the damage another driver, Umer Khatab, became involved.

Scanlon then turned on him, again shouting racist insults and threatening to him as he hated ‘his people’.

He punched the driver’s door window of Mr Khatab’s car, which smashed and the driver called police.

Scanlon left and the taxi drivers decided to follow him to keep him in view.

Mr Wills said: “The defendant realised he was being followed. He walked up to Mr Ali and punched him twice in the face and on his arm. The defendant approached Mr Khatab and struck him on the head.”

Jonathan Slawinski, mitigating, said that his client had been out since the early evening drinking a cocktail of different drinks.

He told magistrates: “He started with beer and then moved on to Jagerbombs and Desperados which isn’t a good mix.

“After coming out of one establishment he was attacked by two black men, he’s desperate to get away and wants to get into a taxi.”

He added: “He’s vented his anger because of the refusal of the taxi driver to take him when he’s trying to escape his assailants.

“It’s a massive mess that he’s got himself into.”

Magistrates adjourned sentencing until March 4 for reports but warned police that custody was an option.