A thug called a border cop a "Rochdale paedo" after he was nabbed with 14,000 cigarettes in his luggage.Michael Legros, 32, was in Manchester Airport, coming back from a holiday in Bali with his partner Heidi Mullis and their young children on May 24 2020 when he was stopped by border force officers.
Legros then began aggressively pacing up and down with his fists clenched as his suitcases were being searched, reports Liverpool Echo.
The suitcase was opened and 14,000 cigarettes were discovered.Legros called the officers "scruffy c****", before he added: "You only earn £20,000 a year - just keep the cigarettes," Liverpool Crown Court.Zahra Baqri, prosecuting, said Legros told an Asian officer that he looked like a "Rochdale paedo".
The unnamed officer was said to be physically shaken by the racial abuse.The court heard the officer had been racially abused before in the job, but this "really shook him".
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