A mum knocked back strong lager and then waved a machete around in front of children while screaming racist abuse at her neighbours.

Danielle McCully, 34, brandished the 2ft weapon from her waistband outside her block of flats in Margate after a seven-year feud.

She yelled racist obscenities while her own two children and other youngsters watched on.

Judge Rupert Lowe told the mother-of-three: “Not only did you shout obscenities, but you got a machete in the street which you flourished.

“There you were, armed with that long knife.

“I hope you don’t want your children to behave like that when they fall out with people, because that is what you have taught them.”

CCTV played in court showed McCully in the street, lurching left and right, appearing to scream and repeatedly brandish the machete.

She was surrounded by onlookers, including a number of children, during the disturbance in Dane Valley Road, Margate, in October last year.

On her arrest, McCully levelled a number of threats at the police, prosecutor Caroline Knight told Canterbury Crown Court.

She said: “She swore at them and said ‘I will kill her.’”

The abuse came after a seven-year-long feud with her victims and neighbours, the court heard on Monday.

Peter Alcock, mitigating, told the court McCully had since cleaned up her act after moving from the property and highlighted her early guilty plea.

McCully, who previously had one conviction for two offences, pleaded guilty to racially aggravated harassment and possessing a knife in public.

'Not only did you shout obscenities, but you got a machete in the street which you flourished'

Judge Lowe sentenced her to 120 hours of unpaid work to be completed in 12 months, alongside 20 rehabilitation days.

“If you are ever in a position of carrying a bladed article in public again you will go to prison.

“If it turns out you are going to do that again (use racist language) you will find there is a very different result,” Judge Lowe told her.

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