A MAN who shouted racial abuse at Asian children and chanted "BNP" at them has been jailed for eight months.
Steven Moorhouse, 26, of Rushton Hill Close, Pellon, Halifax, admitted racially aggravated common assault and harassment between June and July last year.
The children, who cannot be named for legal reasons, were aged between eight and 13.
Paul Williams, prosecuting, said Moorhouse made an inappropriate comment to a 12-year-old girl and her two younger brothers took exception.
Mr Williams said: "He said, 'Have you got an older sister? I need a woman to keep me off drugs'."
When the boys, eight and 10, objected, Moorhouse unleashed a tirade of racial abuse on them.
"He told them to go back to their own country," said Mr Williams, "While walking away he repeated the phrase, 'BNP, BNP'."
A week later, Moorhouse abused a 13-year-old white girl and her Asian boyfriend and threatened to return with a knife and stab one of them.
On July 4 he again used racist language towards the brothers from the earlier incident and swung out at one of them, clipping him with his finger.
Moorhouse – who has previous convictions for assault, threatening behaviour and harassment and committed the latest offences in breach of a suspended sentence – was overheard shouting that he would get the BNP to come and slit someone's throat.
Jailing him, Recorder Richard Mansell QC said: "You resort to violent, threatening, bullying behaviour when things don't go your way."
Halifax Courier
