A racist thug adopted a boxing stance and said “c'mon, c'mon” to an Aldi security guard escorting him from a store.

Frankie Denham, of Canterbury, also unleashed a tirade of abuse at the employee and shop manager following a drinking session, when ordered out of the city’s supermarket.

During the confrontation, the 28-year-old claimed he had been “misidentified” as a banned shoplifter and started “kicking off”.

He told the guard to “go back to his own country” and launched other obscenities, including homophobic slurs, at staff while being ushered out.

Denham, of Bingley Court, was later charged and admitted threatening behaviour and racially aggravated threatening behaviour at an early opportunity.

On returning to Margate Magistrates’ Court on October 14 to learn his fate, prosecutor Dylan Bradshaw said: “It was one incident in the Aldi store in Canterbury at about 7.30pm on December 5, 2023.

“A security guard had been told by the manager that he required him to get him to leave after he went to the fridge aisle as he had been previously banned from the store.

“He began kicking off and shouting about his human rights and then said, ‘Go s*** from my country’ and then the guard put his hands on him to move him from the store.

“He was shouting and being racist and then formed a boxing stance and said, ‘c'mon, c'mon’ and continued with his stance and started punching out and then told him to ‘go back to his own country’.”

The prosecutor said the security guard had written a victim impact statement to say he was disappointed he’d been racially abused and that he didn’t deserve to be treated in such a way.

A statement from the store manager said he instructed the guard to get Denham to leave the store because he was a shoplifter. Then, as the guard tried ejecting him, he shouted the word “misidentified” a number of times.

The manager also told police he heard Denham shouting phrases like “go back to Palestine and Iraq” as well as shouting “f***** and fat ****”. He said it was distressing to hear the homophobic and fat-shaming abuse and for his staff to hear it too.

The prosecutor told magistrates there should be uplifts in their sentencing decision as not only had Denham used racially aggravated language, but he also made homophobic slurs.

Roger Davies, defending, told the court his client had been using the shop for about three years.

He added: “He shops there each week and is good friends with the staff. He’s not banned, he’s not a shoplifter and he was very upset about it. It was mistaken identity.

“He had had a little too much alcohol and when he does he sometimes expresses himself in a way he shouldn’t.

“He was ushered out of the store but disputes the reason.

“He stayed and waited for the police [at the scene] and the words he used - he knows they are not acceptable.

“He does have an alcohol problem and is on Universal Credit.”

The court also heard Denham told a probation officer he usually drank between four or five cans of booze every day and that the officer suggested a six-month alcohol treatment requirement may help him kick the habit.

Magistrates said the offences were serious enough for a community order and said his offending was clearly linked to his alcohol problem.

As a result, they placed him on a 12-month order which will see him complete a six-month alcohol treatment requirement and he must also attend 10 rehabilitation sessions with probation.

He was also ordered to pay the security guard and the store manager £75 compensation.

They also told Denham the community order would have been six months long but they uplifted the sentence because of the racial and homophobic elements of the offences.