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A life-long alcoholic who called his Slovakian neighbours ‘n*****s’ while he was drunk and naked in the street has claimed he is not racist because he wears a Bob Marley t-shirt.

Glyn Kirk, 52, of Folkestone Road in Dover, stood in the street wearing "nothing but a coat" when he shouted racial slurs at his neighbours on October 16.

The unemployed 52-year-old was heard shouting "go back to your own country" among other offensive phrases.

Appearing at Folkestone Magistrates’ Court yesterday (November 1), he pleaded guilty to racially aggravated harassment and exposure on his street.

Soiling himself in a park

But although he admitted the offence, Kirk – who has a previous conviction of outraging public decency after soiling himself in a park and walking around without his trousers on - told the court he “has many friends from ethnic minority communities”.

James Nicholls, prosecuting: “Police were called to a disturbance where Kirk and his friend were having a dispute with Slovakian neighbours on Folkestone Road, who Kirk said spat at them.

"Police were later called back out after a number of neighbours called to say he was out in the street naked and shouting abuse.

Genitals exposed

“He was described as wearing nothing but a coat, with his genitals exposed.

“He was using words such as ‘n*****’, and ‘why don’t you go back to your own country.’”

Guy Wyatt, defending, said Kirk was trying his best to support a friend who had been confronted by the neighbours.

He said: “His neighbour had been abused, and he said the perpetrators just happened to be Slovakian.”

Ethnic minority friends

Mr Wyatt added: “After the police had failed to do anything, Kirk felt he needed to do something and confront his neighbours in chivalric support of his friend.

“He does not remember the words he said, and accepts he said things he would never normally say.

“He is very keen the court should know he has many friends from ethnic minority communities, and he is wearing a Bob Marley t-shirt.

'Drunken and abusive behaviour'

“He was frustrated and upset by the response from the police.”

Mr Wyatt went on to say that the behaviour of the Slovakian neighbours was still being investigated by the police, and pointed to the fact that they did not want to support the prosecution or the police in this case.

Sentencing Kirk, who has been unemployed since 2010, District Judge Justin Barron said: “Whilst your exposure was not sexual, it was more drunken and abusive behaviour.

“You were so drunk you did not know what you were doing.”

Kirk walked free from court with a £435 fine, but was warned by the judge to stay out of trouble.