A partygoer attacked by a bouncer in a Kingston nightclub said he now lives in fear.

Adam Tang was pushed into Bacchus nightclub, grabbed by the throat and pinned to the ground by doorman Dean Springer.

Springer suspected Mr Tang of carrying drugs, but did not ask the innocent 23-year-old to empty his pockets before assaulting him, Wimbledon Magistrates’ Court heard.

The court heard Springer patted Mr Tang down and felt something in his pocket, which was bodybuilding supplement Creatine.

During the assault, in which a metal detector arch smashed to the ground, two other bouncers helped pin down Mr Tang before asking him what was in his pocket.

Addressing Springer, prosecuting counsel Kathryn Selby said: “There are no niceties with you, are there? You didn’t say ‘Empty your pockets’. Instead you used brute force and pushed him into the nightclub didn’t you?

“You could have simply refused [him] entry to the club. You didn’t give him the opportunity to empty his pockets.”

Speaking after the trial, Mr Tang said the incident had knocked his confidence and forced him to give up his job in security.

He said: “After the incident I felt awful, like I wanted to sleep, just be by myself and I lost a lot of my friends and I am not with a girlfriend of five years who I was with at the time because of it all.”

Springer, from Mitcham, said Mr Tang could have prevented the clash by telling him he had the capsule in his pocket from the start.

The 33-year-old admitted Mr Tang was no great threat and his own behaviour looked dangerous on CCTV footage of the incident in Union Street on July 24 last year.

Springer was found guilty, at the trial on Monday, January 17, of assault by beating and is due to return to Wimbledon Magistrates’ Court for sentencing on Friday, February 2.