A MAN has been jailed after making racist and homophobic comments and threatening to stamp on someone’s head after being banned from a homeless shelter.
Joe Wharton returned to Ashton’s Townhouse, on Burlington Street, on June 14 after being told to stay away.
When asked to leave by staff, he became verbally abusive, making homophobic comments and threats to stamp on the victim’s head.
He left the site but returned a short time later where he made further comments, some of a racial nature.
And after officers from Greater Manchester Police’s Tameside North Neighbourhood Policing Team arrested him at the scene, the 26-year-old, of no fixed abode, was jailed by magistrates.
Wharton was charged with intentional harassment, alarm or distress and racially aggravated harassment, alarm or distress.
He admitted the charges at Tameside Magistrates Court and was locked up for six weeks.