A MIXED race man who racially abused a black garage attendant has failed in his appeal against his jail sentence.

Andrew David Bleasdale, 38, abused Mubrak Namaji and smashed windows in the garage he was tending in Haslingden, on May 29 last year.

Bleasdale, of Hungerford Walk, Manchester, was jailed for six months on March 5 this year after pleading guilty to racially aggravated threatening behaviour at Burnley Crown Court.

Yesterday he asked top judges, Mr Justice Blair and Mr Justice Openshaw, sitting at London's Criminal Appeal Court, to overturn that sentence, claiming it was too harsh.

But Mr Justice Blair, giving the judgment of the court, refused his appeal saying that, whilst the racially aggravated factor was not the most serious, his actions in attacking the windows of the petrol station warranted the six-month term.

"There was no way that the incident, which left the attendant terrified and covered in glass, could have warranted a sentence of less than six months, and this application is dismissed," the judge concluded.