A man who was banned from a Greater Manchester homeless shelter has been jailed after hurling racist and homophobic comments and threatening staff. Greater Manchester Police says Joe Wharton had already been barred from The Town House, in Ashton-under-Lyne, when he returned to the Burlington Street building on Tuesday evening (June 14).
When he was asked to leave the site, the 26-year-old soon turned abusive - using slurs and threatening to injure a staff member's head by stamping on it. Wharton, of no fixed abode, appeared at Tameside Magistrates Court this morning (Thursday) charged with racially aggravated harassment, alarm or distress, and intention to cause harassment, alarm or distress.
He pleaded guilty to both charges and was sentenced to six weeks in prison. A spokesperson for GMP Tameside said: "On Tuesday evening, Wharton attended at The Town House on Burlington Street, Ashton, where he had previously been banned from.
