A NEW UKIP councillor in Worcestershire has sparked fury amid allegations he unleashed a series of racist abuse online.

Eric Kitson, who won a seat in Stourport just 11 days ago, is facing the sack today over a whole raft of anti-Muslim, anti-Jewish Facebook posts.

Among the most shocking is a cartoon of a Muslim being spit-roasted on a fire fuelled by copies of the Koran.

In one comment he said in reference to Muslim women: “Hang um all first then ask questions later.”

A raft of anti-Jewish remarks have also appeared on his Facebook site, and in a separate post he has called for the repatriation of “six million migrants and refugees”.

There was also false claims posted on his site that the Rothschild banking dynasty had controlled Nazi Germany's leader Adolf Hitler.

His Facebook page has also called for Muslim women to be hanged, suggested Islam is "a cancer" that should be eradicated "with nuclear weapons" and expressed support for BNP boss Nick Griffin by 'liking' him.

His site also called for the world to "unite against Islam" and supports the far-right English Defence League.

The pages have been re-published on a website called Stand for Peace, which has condemned his actions.

His Facebook page has now been deleted, but the Stand for Peace website still carries large volumes of his vile posts, some of them dating back to 2012.

A complaint has been made to an inspector at West Mercia Police this afternoon, who has asked to see a file of his Facebook posts.

The Muslim community has called the rants "sickening" and a petition is being circulated around mosques tonight calling for his removal.

Councillor Adrian Hardman, the leader of Worcestershire County Council, said: "This looks like criminal activity because he's inciting racial hatred - he should do the honourable thing and resign because he has brought shame on the county."

The attacks are currently being investigated by UKIP HQ in London, and have been condemned as “disgusting” by senior figures at Worcestershire County Council this morning.

Councillor Kitson has only just been through training for being an elected politician, and is one of four UKIP members to have just been elected to the authority for the first time ever.

If he is removed from his position it would be the shortest spell any elected politician has ever had in County Hall - and would trigger a by-election.

A UKIP spokesman told the Worcester News: “The party is looking into it because we need to find out exactly what has gone on here.

“We don’t want to dismiss him outright until we investigate it.

“Our understanding is that he has offered to resign over it, but we need to establish what’s happened.

“A conversation will be taking place and if we find out he has behaved inappropriately, he would have to go."

Councillor Peter McDonald, leader of Worcestershire’s Labour group, said: “These remarks are disgusting and it brings the whole office of being a councillor into disrepute.

“It’s a terrible mess, he has let himself down, the council down, and the voters who elected him in down - they did not vote for this.

"It's terribly sad and pretty shocking what he has done - this man is now an elected councillor."

The authority has already had one request for the Standards Committee to investigate, and has released a statement in the last few minutes.

Simon Mallinson, head of legal and democratic services, said: "Whilst we would avoid commenting on any individual case at this stage, elected members are expected to comply with the council's code of conduct when they act in their role as county councillors.

"Any complaint that this code has been breached when acting in such a role will be carefully considered."

Coun Kitson has yet to respond to calls from the press, but Wyre Forest's UKIP branch has confirmed he is under investigation.

Neil Jukes, the chairman, said: "He is under investigation and we will be taking it very seriously.

"I must admit, I was totally unaware of this and when he became a candidate, like all the rest we asked him to sign a form declaring he had no skeletons in the closet and had nothing which would cause us any embarrassment.

"We will have to wait and see."

Muslim Mumshad Ahmed, a former county councillor, said: "I am sickened and disgusted by this, I cannot believe the hatred he is creating.

"I will be taking a petition around mosques tonight to get people to sign it, this man is doing something very dangerous - when a Koran was burned there was riots around the world.

"I cannot see why he's done this."

Meanwhile, Councillor Simon Geraghty, deputy leader of the county council, has called it "heinous".

"You find youself lost for words," he said.

"It's absolutely dreadful and he clearly is not the right person to be a councillor with those views."