A ‘DISGUSTING’ neighbour who racially abused a mother and urinated on the doorstep of her basement flat has been jailed for six months.

A judge today told Lance Winkle that he had behaved shamefully towards the woman, sticking his middle finger up at her and squirting liquid at her and her young son.

Prosecutor Nicola Hoskins told Bradford Crown Court that Winkle, 53, lived in the flat above his victim at Park Crescent in Undercliffe in Bradford.

He had sent her letters and gifts which she had ignored and then played loud music into the early hours.

He stuck his finger up at her and said: ‘It’s my country’ before hurling racist abuse at her.

On one occasion she heard his voice outside her home and he was urinating outside.

He called her more racially abusive names and sprayed liquid at her from a bottle. She and her son attended hospital because they were worried about what they had been covered in, Miss Hoskins said.

On May 6 last year, the police attended at Winkle’s flat and found CS spray and two ornamental swords that were hanging on the wall.

He admitted urinating outside the flat and told officers he wanted the woman to be frightened.

Winkle pleaded guilty to racially aggravated harassment and possession of the swords and CS spray in a private place.

In her victim personal statement, the woman said she had felt ‘stalked, harassed and watched’ even within her home.

She hoped that Winkle would get bored with his behaviour and leave her alone but he didn’t. The landlord spoke to him but he still didn’t stop.

He had urinated on her doorstep and squeezed liquid from a bottle on to her.

She had to install new CCTV cameras during three months of harassment.

Christopher Styles said in mitigation that the two ceremonial swords were attached to the wall and the CS spray was never used.

Winkle had spent seven days in custody on remand before he was bailed.

He had been on a tagged curfew order for ten months while excluded from his home.

There had been no trouble since his arrest, ‘matters had settled down.’ Judge Colin Burn told Winkle the circumstances were ‘shameful’ and the language he used was ‘disgusting.’ “You have a notable lack of insight into your own unacceptable attitudes,” he said.

Winkle had told the police he intended to frighten the woman.

He was jailed for six months but the time he spent on tagged curfew would lead to his immediate release, the court heard.

A four-year restraining order bans Winkle from contacting or approaching the woman or her son.

Judge Burn warned him that he would be subject to prison licence for 12 months and that any breach of the restraining order would be punished by the courts.