Council worker’s racist tirade lands him in jail

A COUNCIL worker subjected people in a shop to a tirade of vile racist abuse and told them to “go home” and “get back on the boats”.

- JASON EVANS

> Kurtis Ball

Kurtis Ball continued to use offensive and racist language even after being arrested and then went on to threaten and assault a police officer.

Swansea Crown Court heard 24-year-old Ball was subject to a suspended sentence at the time of the offending after he and his father attacked customers and staff at a Swansea city-centre pub when told they could not take their pints out on to the pavement.

Regan Walters, prosecuting, told the court that at shortly before 6pm on September 5 last year police responded to reports of a male shouting at and threatening people at the Nisa shop opposite Swansea's High Street station.

He said Ball directed a series of racial slurs at people and told them to “go back to your f****** country” and “f****** get back on the boats”. The defendant was also heard shouting “Wales!” and: “F*** the f****** mosques”. When a woman intervened to try to calm the situation, the defendant subjected her to abusive sexual language and called her a "slag".

The court heard police officers found the defendant outside the nearby railway station “stumbling around and slurring his speech” and they described him as appearing highly intoxicated. Ball denied being drunk but stated that he had had “a couple of beers” after work. Ball was noted to be wearing the uniform of a council employee.