A HEREFORDSHIRE man has been up before the magistrates after a racially aggravated incident in a market town.
Dean Ward entered guilty pleas to one charge of obstructing or resisting a constable in the execution of their duties and one charge of causing racially or religiously aggravated intentional harassment, alarm, or distress when he appeared before magistrates in Hereford.
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Prosecutor Mark Hambling told the court that the 24-year-old had used racially aggravated threatening, abusive, or insulting words or behaviour with intent to cause a person harassment, alarm, or distress in Leominster on May 21.
He had also wilfully obstructed a police officer acting in the course of their duties in Leominster on the same date, the court was told.
Ward, who is of Vicarage Street in Leominster, was fined a total of £300 and must pay prosecution costs of £185 and a £34 victim surcharge.
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