The mosque on Brook Street, Carlisle
A man who shouted racial abuse outside a mosque in Carlisle has been ordered to pay out £390 by a court.
John James Clyde, 50, admitted racial or religious aggravated harassment in Brook Street, off London Road, just after midnight on June 10.
Magistrates in Carlisle were told how Clyde came out of his house in Brook Street and shouted racial abuse at two men sitting in a vehicle who had been in the mosque to worship.
Clyde told the magistrates: “I am not a racist.”
He was fined £270 with prosecution costs of £85 and a victim surcharge of £35.
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