Man given suspended 10-week sentence over racist assault on teacher in Stockport

Robert Browne, 56, had hurled abuse at man on a street in Cheadle after chasing him with two umbrellas

A former soldier who pleaded guilty to a racist assault after chasing a teacher down the street with two umbrellas and using a racial slur has received a 10-week suspended sentence and ordered to pay his victim 300.

Robert Browne, 56, pleaded guilty last month at Tameside magistrates court to racially/religiously aggravated common assault/beating on 25 July this year after a video showed him hurling racist abuse at Shabir Makim, 40, and striking him with umbrellas.