A 20 year old man returned to a mobile phone shop and shouted racist abuse at the female assistant who he thought had sold him the wrong top-up card.

Blackburn magistrates heard that Keiron James Brian abused the girl and threatened "to come and get her."

Brian, of Fowler Height Close, was convicted of racially aggravated threatening behaviour after a trial.

He was made subject to a curfew between 4 pm and 4 am for five months and ordered to pay £50 compensation and £200 costs.

Prosecuting, Scott Ainge said Brian had bought a top-up card one day and came in complaining the next.

He was aggressive and said to the assistant; "It's your fault, you bitch, you gave me the wrong top-up."

He was asked to leave and hurled racist abuse and threats at the assistant. She followed him out of the shop where he picked up a brick and threw it in the direction of the building.

"Fortunately it did not hit either the building or the young lady," said Mr Ainge.

The conviction also put him in breach of a conditional discharge imposed for using threatening behaviour, possession of an offensive weapon outside a mosque in Didsbury Street.

Defending, Anser Amin said he could say little about the shop incident which his client had always denied.