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A racist has been jailed for 33 weeks for covering her black neighbour with a mixture of flour and water and telling her: "You are now white British."

Mum-of-four Kellie Wells, 42, carried out a campaign of harassment against her former friend Pamela Bower, who built a fence between their homes after their relationship cooled.

In May 2013, Wells shouted over the fence: "Go back to your own country."

Two months later, she climbed the fence with the flour and water in a tub and threw the solution over Mrs Bower.

She hurled more abuse in the following weeks and threatened to burn down the fence and Mrs Bower's house.

Recorder Gordon Reed said of the abuse: "It was humiliating and offensive - at the high end of the scale."

Wells, of Gillingham, Kent, admitted racially aggravated harassment but denied throwing flour. Maidstone crown court also gave her a 10-year restraining order.

Mrs Bower has lived in the UK for 15 years and after the death of her husband Wells would visit regularly to drink wine with her.

But after their friendship broke down, Wells made racist comments including calling Mrs Bower 'a black gorilla' and mimicking an Indian accent told her to 'take your welly boots and go back to your own country'.

The abuse peaked when Wells put the mixture of flour and water into an ice cream tub and threw it over Mrs Bower while she was on the phone to her sister in South Africa.

She also threatened to burn down the fence and Mrs Bower's house.

Recorder Wells added: "Your conduct has a number of aggravating features.

"She was in her own home - the one place she was entitled above all else to feel comfortable and secure.

"It led to the point where she was scared to go home and she was feeling constantly stressed. She didn't feel she could go into her own garden.

"There is little evidence you show remorse. Overall, this was appalling conduct. One cannot overstate the seriousness of it. It simply cannot be tolerated."