A company director sprayed an Asian man with fire extinguisher foam and called him horrific racist names after he was pelted with food.
Mobile phone footage shows the scared victim having food thrown at him from off camera before David Heslop emerges onto the screen and discharges the fire extinguisher over his face and body. A court heard he called the man racist names and as the foam went over him, said "this is the first time you've been white" and also called him a grass.
Heslop, 36, of Rubens Avenue, South Shields, whose previous convictions including a racially aggravated public order offence, pleaded guilty to racially aggravated causing fear of provocation or violence. But he denies being a racist and a judge at Newcastle Crown Court said he would sentence him on the basis he is not.
