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White Irish guy charged with racial harassmentafter calling white Welsh lady "English".
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A grandfather has been given a prison sentence for racial harassment after calling a Welsh woman "English".Mick Forsythe used the term during an argument over a scratched car in his Welsh home town.He called the vehicle's owner, Lorna Steele, an "English bitch".She and her husband took great offence at the jibe and decided to take him to court.
The 55-year-old former lorry driver was found guilty of racially aggravated disorderly behaviour, and received a ten-week prison sentence suspended for 12 months.Yesterday Mr Forsythe attacked the prosecution as a waste of time and money."I find it unbelievable that I've been prosecuted for this," he said. I'm originally from Northern Ireland so I'm an adoptive Welshman.
"I've travelled all over Europe as a lorry driver and never had any problems with anybody and now they're officially calling me a racist.The case took nine months to get to court, having begun on a snowy day in February in the quiet mid-Wales market town of Newtown.Mr Forsythe says hismind was on the recent arrival of his granddaughter when he struck anothervehicle while parking in front of his bric-a-brac shop.The car belonged to Mrs Steele, who runs the tattoo parlour next door with her husband Gavin.Mr Forsythe claims he went to offer to pay for the scratches he had caused. But, the court was told, he became abusive and hurled insults at Mrs Steele, 32, and her husband.Yesterday his wife Val, 50, explained: 'Mick was a bit distracted because our granddaughter Rhian had just been born.He went in and did the decent thing and owned up to it.Then the next thing is they are asking for £500 for the damage."My husband has a temper and he was a lorry driver for years so his language is a bit colourful sometimes.
"The Steeles started the row and Mick got angry and he admits he swore at them. But he only muttered under his breath."After the argument Mrs Steele put up a sign in her shop which read "Some People Call Me a Bitch".But she insisted the incident was no joking matter.She said: "I'm Welsh – I was born in Welshpool."But we couldn't let him get away with what he said."Her husband, a 40-year-old Englishman originally from Hull, added of Mr Forsythe: "He is a racist. He doesn't like the English."He's from Ireland originally and he's lived in Wales for years and some of them don't like English people."The point is that he shouldn't have said those things to Lorna."All we wanted from him was an apology but he wouldn't give us that."So we've had to go all the way through the courts to get it.There's no way this should have ended up in court, it's the sort of thing you should be able to sort out without that."But he said what he said and I think he deserved to be found guilty." "It's political correctness gone mad.
"The joke is that the woman I had the row with isn't even English. She's Welsh. I am absolutely gobsmacked, to be frank."
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White Irish guy charged with racial harassmentafter calling white Welsh lady "English".
Full Story-- if you prefer reading it.....
A grandfather has been given a prison sentence for racial harassment after calling a Welsh woman "English".Mick Forsythe used the term during an argument over a scratched car in his Welsh home town.He called the vehicle's owner, Lorna Steele, an "English bitch".She and her husband took great offence at the jibe and decided to take him to court.
The 55-year-old former lorry driver was found guilty of racially aggravated disorderly behaviour, and received a ten-week prison sentence suspended for 12 months.Yesterday Mr Forsythe attacked the prosecution as a waste of time and money."I find it unbelievable that I've been prosecuted for this," he said. I'm originally from Northern Ireland so I'm an adoptive Welshman.
"I've travelled all over Europe as a lorry driver and never had any problems with anybody and now they're officially calling me a racist.The case took nine months to get to court, having begun on a snowy day in February in the quiet mid-Wales market town of Newtown.Mr Forsythe says hismind was on the recent arrival of his granddaughter when he struck anothervehicle while parking in front of his bric-a-brac shop.The car belonged to Mrs Steele, who runs the tattoo parlour next door with her husband Gavin.Mr Forsythe claims he went to offer to pay for the scratches he had caused. But, the court was told, he became abusive and hurled insults at Mrs Steele, 32, and her husband.Yesterday his wife Val, 50, explained: 'Mick was a bit distracted because our granddaughter Rhian had just been born.He went in and did the decent thing and owned up to it.Then the next thing is they are asking for £500 for the damage."My husband has a temper and he was a lorry driver for years so his language is a bit colourful sometimes.
"The Steeles started the row and Mick got angry and he admits he swore at them. But he only muttered under his breath."After the argument Mrs Steele put up a sign in her shop which read "Some People Call Me a Bitch".But she insisted the incident was no joking matter.She said: "I'm Welsh – I was born in Welshpool."But we couldn't let him get away with what he said."Her husband, a 40-year-old Englishman originally from Hull, added of Mr Forsythe: "He is a racist. He doesn't like the English."He's from Ireland originally and he's lived in Wales for years and some of them don't like English people."The point is that he shouldn't have said those things to Lorna."All we wanted from him was an apology but he wouldn't give us that."So we've had to go all the way through the courts to get it.There's no way this should have ended up in court, it's the sort of thing you should be able to sort out without that."But he said what he said and I think he deserved to be found guilty." "It's political correctness gone mad.
"The joke is that the woman I had the row with isn't even English. She's Welsh. I am absolutely gobsmacked, to be frank."
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