The incident occurred last Sunday, when a student of Leicester University, Kosi Orah, 19, arrived at the Ghost Nightclub with a group of friends to celebrate his birthday. A video recording of the incident, released online, shows the man at the door denying entry to the students on grounds of race.
“I have no problems with you guys at all, but that is the rules of the club,” the doorman is heard saying.
When asked by the students whether the decision to refuse their entry was racially motivated, the guard said “Yes, that’s what I am saying.”
“It left us devastated. It was like the kind of incident you heard about happening in parts of America in the 1960s,” Orah told the Sun newspaper.
After reports on the incident began to surface, the club issued an apologetic statement saying that people of all races and ethnicities were welcome there.
This is not the first incident of alleged racial bias to occur in the UK this year.
In February, Chelsea football club barred five fans from attending a stadium in London after they had prevented a black French man from entering a train on the Paris metro before a Champions League game.
