A prolific shoplifter who racially abused a Gravesend supermarket security guard just three weeks after an order banning him from the town centre ended, has been banned again.

Joe Glynn, 35, was told by Recorder George Pulman QC that he was guilty of "a vile verbal attack in the foulest and most violent tone".

The father-of-six was jailed for nine months but the sentence suspended for 18 months.

Recorder Pulman also imposed a four-year Anti-Social Behaviour Order again banning Glynn from Gravesend town centre, as well as branches of several supermarkets and department stores.

Maidstone Crown Court heard Glynn, of Pelham Road, Gravesend, had been subject to the first Asbo imposed for shoplifting in north Kent. It was imposed in 2007 after he had been arrested 28 times, 14 for shoplifting.

He had also been jailed for 12 months for racially abusing a store security manager, hurling abuse when challenged about stealing.