A WOMAN launched a racial tirade against a shopkeeper.
But Michelle Kenyon got the ethnic origin of the shopkeeper wrong, believing she was Polish when she came from the Ukraine.
Kenyon, a 30-year-old mother-of-one, of Bowness Avenue, Mereside, pleaded guilty to racially aggravated threatening behavio
ur.
She was fined £50 and ordered to pay £50 compensation, plus the £15 victims' surcharge by Blackpool magistrates.
Peter Bardsley, prosecuting, said Kenyon went into the Booze Inn off-licence, Cherry Tree Road, Marton, and bought a can of lager, on September 21.
The owner, Larysa Young, came in and recognised Kenyon as someone who had previously been barred from the shop.
The lager was taken off Kenyon, who was given her money back.
Kenyon said: "It's just like you Polish to come over here and marry an Englishman, take our money and give it to your families, then when it's gone leave your husband."
She then swore and spat.
Martin Hillson, defending, said it was the first time Kenyon had been in the shop and she believed the owner mistook her for someone else. After the lager was taken there was a heated exchange of words.
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