Another Croydon female tram passenger has been caught hurling racist abuse - this time at a black ticket inspector, who tried to check her Oyster card.
Karen Smith, 52, (pic.top) of North Downs Road, New Addington shouted: "F*** off you black c*** and stop harassing me."
Her appearance at Croydon Crown Court yesterday follows the conviction of neighbour Emma West, 36, who admitted racially aggravated disorderly behaviour and was sentenced last July.
Judge Nicholas Ainley ruled Smith was unfit to enter a plea, but a jury found a charge of racially aggravated threatening behaviour towards Junior Williams on February 15, 2011 proved and she received an absolute discharge.
The court heard Mr. Williams (pic.bottom) tried to check Smith's card after it "double bleeped" on the platform reader outside East Croydon Station.
She told him: "I'm the only person you checked, you black c***," and shouted to the inspector's colleagues: "People like him shouldn't do this to me in my own country. I've been here longer."
Smith was blocked from boarding the tram and replied: "F*** off coon. Just try and stop me."
Mr Williams told the jury: "She described my white colleague as a disgrace to her race.
"I'm there doing a job, it's belittling."
Smith eventually stormed off, after telling Mr. Williams to: "Go back to your own country," but was arrested after lodging an official complaint about the way she was treated.
She reported in a statement: "I was spoken to like I was a piece of dirt by the inspector."
2 comments:
For your information Emma west was sentenced 4 years ago and is not a nabour of karen smith and if you don't retraced these untruths we will take action,
If you are going to publish these story's please get your story's right Emma west was sentanced 4 years ago and is not n abour of karen smith, and both people your are talking about have mental health problems, which are not helped by your lazy poor reporting.
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