A man who was fined for racially aggravated disorderly behaviour after calling Welsh people “sheep s******s” has claimed he was using the term to describe people who live in the countryside.

Anthony Taaffe, 47, was fined £150, deemed paid by his time in custody, following the incident at a holiday park in Wales.

According to WalesOnline Mr Taaffe had to be restrained by an off-duty police officer when he was seen swearing and shouting while drunk, a weekend special court at Llandudno heard.

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The court was told that Mr Taaffe appeared to be drunk and had been swearing and shouting while children were present.

When security staff and an off-duty police officer intervened Mr Taaffe called them a 'bunch of sheep s******S'.

Mr Taaffe also pleaded guilty to a second offence when he called a police officer at the custody unit he was taken to a “Welsh sheep s*****r.”

The 47-year-old from Bolton pleaded guilty to the charges but told the court: “Calling someone a ‘sheep-s*****r’ is a term for people living in the countryside.”

In 2011 a man was convicted of racism after calling Scottish tennis player Andy Murray a “useless Jock”.

Darren Swain scrawled the graffiti at a sorting office.

In another incident in November of last year Czech-born Petra Mills, 31, of Monmouth, South Wales, was fined £110 for racially aggravated public disorder after calling her neighbour "a stupid fat Australian".