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.

The order ended on June 26 last year. Three weeks later, Glynn went to Tesco in New Road but became aggressive and abusive when the manager asked him to leave.

The security guard escorted him out but Glynn "repeatedly came back to cause trouble", explained prosecutor Andrew Espley. Glynn also took off his shirt while racially abusing the guard.

Glynn denied racially aggravated fear of violence but was convicted by a jury in January.

The court heard Glynn's abusive and threatening behaviour when caught shoplifting was a "calculated ploy" to intimidate staff so they would let him leave without further action being taken.