A PARKING dispute ended in court with accusations of bullying, intimidation and racist remarks after a councillor confronted a community transport driver and told him to move.

Bernard Borman–Schreiber Von Ullersdorf , 73, a town councillor from Brentwood, Leyburn, denied being threatening and abusive towards the driver, Martin Hyatt.

Borman said the driver had abused him by claiming he wasn’t English, but he told Northallerton Magistrates Court: “I am British by choice I have worked for it.”

Mr Hyatt refuted that claim and said he was trying to calm the situation while Borman was “ranting and raving”.

“On a scale of one to ten I would have given him 11 for going straight over the top,” Mr Hyatt said.

He told the court he parked opposite Borman’s drive because he was early to pick up a community support patient and there were no parking restrictions or double yellow lines.

Mr Hyatt said Borman told him to “move now”, had been abusive and called him a “left wing a......e”.

At one point the driver said he made to get out of the car and Borman slammed it back, injuring his elbow.

Borman told the court he suffered from heart problems and may need to get out of his drive for emergency treatment at any time, so had asked the driver to move.

But he claimed the driver said: ”We all know who you are, and you are not even English.”

But Borman added: “I am of Saxon origin – I object to racial abuse outside my own home.”

Prosecutor Philip Morris informed the court of a 2006 prosecution against Borman for “malicious communication” against a 999 operator.

Finding Borman guilty, chairman of the bench Julia Svennevig said:”We found Borman less credible, his answers were vague and inconsistent.”

He was ordered to pay £650 costs and handed a two-year conditional discharge.

Outside court he explained he was descended from “Bohemian aristocracy,” but denied stories he was a Prussian Count.