A DORCHESTER man beaten in a race attack today told of his ordeal as his two attackers were warned they faced jail.

Khalique Miah was left beaten and bruised after the early hours attack in Dorchester.

He said the physical injuries have healed but the mental scars are still with him.

And his shock was compounded by the effect on his small son who fears his colour puts him at risk of attack too.

Former restaurateur Mr Miah was in court to see one of his attackers plead guilty to three counts of racially-aggravated assault by beating.

And he vowed to return at the end of the month when the men will be sentenced at Dorchester Crown Court.

Judges have warned both men that they face prison for their part in the attack in Trinity Street last June in which Mr Miah was also robbed.

Recorder Peter Blair granted bail to Christopher Alexander Edmund James, 20, of Woodsford, Crossways, but warned that all options were open when he returns to Dorchester Crown Court to be sentenced at the end of January.

The warning followed a similar message spelled out to co-defendant Craig Paul Berry, 18, of Trowbridge, Wiltshire, who appeared at the court in September to plead guilty to one count of robbery and two of racially-aggravated assault by beating.

Mr Miah told the Echo how his ordeal began when his assailants shouted racist insults as he walked down Trinity Street, telling him to go back to his own country.

Bangladeshi-born Mr Miah, 35, said doormen from Bar Rouge intervened and stopped the abuse but the pair attacked him.

They hit him in the face then punched, kicked and pushed him.

He said: “I was punched in the face and needed my wrist in plaster because I fell on it as they pushed me to the ground.

“It was such a shock. These two were sober – they knew what they were doing.”

Mr Miah, who has lived in Dorchester since 1990 and is an interpreter and bus driver, was off work for 10 weeks.

He said: “Physically, I am better but mentally, no.

“I just could not believe this would happen in Dorchester.

“I was shocked and so are my family and friends.

“My son is three and he gets up at night and cries. He says he doesn’t want a brown face, he wants a white face like his mummy.”

Mr Miah said he has previously suffered racial insults aimed at him and his wife, Angela, who is white.

But the violence of the attack had caused him to lose a small bit of his faith in human nature.

He said: “At the end of the day it makes me feel like an outsider.

“But there are quite a few Asian people in the area especially working in the restaurants in Dorchester and Weymouth and there is quite a lot of racism.

“White people probably don’t think there is much racism but it’s here.”

Mr Miah’s watch, bracelet and some papers were stolen in the attack and later found by the police.

He said: “I am going to court to see them sentenced. I want to see them punished and see what the law will have to say about it.”