Racist jailed for daubing 'No Blacks' on family's front door

These are the vile daubings that Dowd unleashed on the door

These are the vile daubings that Dowd unleashed on the door 

A racist who daubed 'no blacks' on an African solicitor's door has been jailed for one year.

Vaughan Dowd admitted racially-aggravated criminal damage after targeting the home in Salford, which 38-year-old Jackson Yamba shares with his 10-year-old son David.

The 55-year-old was jailed this afternoon at Manchester Crown Court after vandalising three doors with white paint. 

Dowd unleashed the racist slogan just five days after his victims moved into the flat after relocating form a neighbouring block.

Dowd, a single man with no children, led a 'sad life', spending his time working then drinking alcohol and watching television, and 'Brexit and immigration' was 'playing on his mind' at the time, the court heard. 

But Mr Yumba disagreed and said after the hearing: 'It’s nothing to do with Brexit, it’s just racism.' 

After seeing the graffiti he left home for work and school and his son became tearful and Mr Yamba said the attack had left him fearful and angry.

The same graffiti was also daubed in the same white paint on an internal communal door and the entry door to the block of flats.

Dowd, a self-employed gardener, pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing to a single count of racially aggravated criminal damage on February 8. In a psychiatric report, 

He said: 'I am in a tragic position. I have only myself to blame and I cannot argue myself. I am a grey man who keeps his head down and carries on my life as a gardener.'

Jailing him for 12 months, Judge Alan Conrad QC told the defendant: 'This country, in particular this area, the cities of Salford and Manchester, have a long and proud history of

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