'Abhorrent and unacceptable' - Racist thug jailed for verbal attack on Asian officer during Leeds disturbance
"I was nothing but professional towards him. There’s no place for racism in society and he should be ashamed of himself.”He has 27 convictions for 55 offences, including causing racially-aggravated alarm and distress and two assaults on police officers.
Despite this, his barrister Gareth Henderson-Moore said: “He comes from a multi-cultural area and says he has no racist views."He accepts he was behaving in a way that was unacceptable, in his mind he was arrested for something he didn’t do.The judge, Recorder Jason Pitter KC, told him it was a “serious offence” and added: “There is little if any mitigation.He handed Thomas-Barr 25 weeks’ jail.
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