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Furious row in shop led to smashed windows
A MAN kicked in shop windows after a shopkeeper threw curry powder in his eyes, a court was told.
Martin Dalton, aged 21, of Southbank Avenue, Marton, pleaded guilty to racially-aggravated damage.
He was sentenced to do 100 hours’ unpaid work for the community and ordered to pay 500 compensation by Blackpool magistrates.
Prosecutor Pam Smith said that on November 16 at 3.40pm Dalton went into The Food and Wine Store, Whitegate Drive, and beckoned the shopkeeper to come outside and fight with him.
Dalton threw items off the shelves and a can of lager at the Asian shopkeeper before making a race hate remark to him and kicking in the shop windows.
Steven Townley, defending, said Dalton’s brother had previously been in the shop and when he put down a can of lager he had been drinking from on the counter, the shopkeeper objected and hit his hand with a bat.
Dalton went to the shop to remonstrate with the shopkeeper, who came at him with the bat.
Dalton threw a can of lager at him and the shopkeeper then threw curry powder in the defendant’s eyes.
Dalton lost his temper and kicked the windows, which cost 1,600 to replace.
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