A Lockwood man fed up at police constantly showing up at his home hurled racist abuse at a female police officer.

The Pc was conducting bail checks at John Moorhouse’s home when he called her a P**i and demanded her badge number.

Prosecutor Alex Bozman told Kirklees Magistrates’ Court: “She has been a police officer for 10 years and subjected to racial abuse throughout her career but this was the worst she’d experienced.”

The officer had attended at Moorhouse’s address in North Street on January 15.

The 21-year-old was found guilty after a trial of racially-aggravated disorderly behaviour.

He initially failed to answer the door to police making curfew checks at his home, Mr Bozman said.

He told magistrates: “He then presented himself and said: ‘F*** off f****g P**i, I want your badge number’.

“This left the officer feeling shocked and distressed.

“The property is in a multi ethnic area with a number of Asian families and young children and there was concern that they had heard this.”

Jonathan Slawinski, mitigating, said that his client and his brother had been on police bail with curfews for a long period of time.

He told magistrates: “The family have been inundated with door step checks, sometimes three to four times a night.

“This was causing havoc within the family house and these over the top measures to check them culminated in this incident.”

Moorhouse was convicted of the offence in his absence and appeared at the Huddersfield court in custody after magistrates ordered his arrest.

They gave him a 12-month conditional discharge as they believed that there had been some degree of provocation and disruption.