A teenager was locked up after throwing glass bottles and kicking, biting and racially abusing police officers during a violent rampage in a Liverpool Tesco store.
Sayed Houssani, 19, also grappled with another customer at the Bold Street store which led to the pair colliding with a alcohol display, smashing bottles worth £339.
Houssani, of Hardman Street in Liverpool city centre , was jailed for a total of nine months at Liverpool Magistrates’ Court today.
The court heard he called one office a f****** p*** and kicked him four times in the back during the chaotic struggle on Sunday night
He pleaded guilty to two charges of assaulting a PC, one of racially aggravated harassment and one of threatening, abusive or insulting behaviour.
Houssani also admitted breaching a suspended sentence of 80 days in prison, handed down for an assault on his former partner.
Andrew Page, prosecuting, told the court Houssani had been waiting in the queue at the Tesco “for a matter of seconds” before becoming agitated and abusive.
Mr Page said: “A staff member rang three bells calling for security to attend and an assistant manager came to the till area. The defendant was heard to say hurry up and serve me you f****** c***.
“Staff asked him to stop being abusive, to which Mr Houssani replied I’m not being abusive you c***.”
The court heard a man waiting in the queue, who remains unknown, challenged the defendant and told him “you are being abusive, mate.”
Mr Page said: “The defendant turned his attention to the male who was taken by surprise, and they fought. Both fell into a beer display causing it to smash and spill over the store. But the male was of a large build and overpowered Mr Houssani.”
However the man released Houssani, who threw a bottle towards the till area narrowly missing staff and customers.
Security guards at the store then restrained him until police arrived.
PC Vinay Ramnath, who was racially abused and kicked by the defendant, was forced to put him on the floor and call for back up as he continued to struggle and shout threats.
When he was eventually taken to St Anne’s Custody Suite he bit PC Kevin Jameson on the thumb before several officers forcibly removed his clothes and locked him in a cell.
He later answered no comment to all questions in an interview.
Christopher Mantle, representing Houssani, said his client had moved to the UK from Iran in 2012 after a “horrendous upbringing”.
Mr Mantle said his client escaped his native country and was granted a five year stay in the UK after being stabbed by his father.
Mr Mantle said: “He is the first to accept he has anger management issues.
The Queen Elizabeth II Law Courts, Liverpool Magistrates’ Court
“He has been diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder which is said to be a result of his traumatic life.”
Since living in the UK Houssani enrolled on a college course in Gillingham, Kent, but moved to Liverpool after being twice convicted of assaulting his girlfriend for a “fresh start.”
He was working in a supermarket on Smithdown Road at the time of the latest offence.
Magistrates’ activated the 80 day suspended sentence and handed down 26 weeks in prison for the new offences, to run consecutively.
The chair of the bench said: “These are very serious offences which were committed while you were under a suspended sentence and a community order meant to keep you out of trouble.
“The location of the offences, in a public place, is an aggravating feature and members of the public must have been terrified. And then you assaulted public servants.”
Source: http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/