A HEROIN addict called a Tesco security guard a “black s***”, before wiping his faeces all over a police cell.

Marshall Mathers, 43, from Brighton, racially abused the Tesco Express security guard in the Jubilee Street store in Brighton after being banned from the shop.

After abusing and threatening the guard, he was then arrested and taken into custody, where he smeared his faeces over the cell.

A sentencing hearing at Brighton Magistrates heard the fracas started after he was told to leave the store by the manager.

The court heard Mathers went to the store at around 7.10pm, shouting to make a complaint about staff after he was banned from the store.

But when he was asked to leave by security guard Nafi Ahmed, Mathers called him a “black s***”. He was then asked to leave by the duty manager. Heroin addict Mathers returned to store around 7.30pm.

Prosecuting, Paul Edwards told the court: “He started making racial comments to the security guard. Mathers told him ‘I know where you live. I will stand outside till you finish your shift’.

“He called him a ‘s***’, ‘rat’ and ‘f****t’, and told him to ‘Go back to his country’ and ‘Go back to the cotton fields’.

“He also told Mr Ahmed ‘I will never leave. I am not afraid, I am coming for you’.”

Mathers shares a name with US rapper Marshall Mathers who goes by his stage name Eminem.

Mathers returned to the store for a third time around 9pm, before he was arrested and taken to the Brighton custody centre. The court heard he defecated in his cell, smearing faeces over the cell door. The cell subsequently needed a deep clean.

In mitigation Oliver Mackrell, defending, said: “On the day in question Mathers received news his gran passed away. Also it is fair to say he is someone who suffers mentally as a result of long term heroin addiction and he did not take the news very well.

“He had been banned from Tesco and when he went to make complaint, they refused him entry, which rubbed salt in the wound and why he reacted badly.”

Mathers of Grand Parade, Brighton, admitted racially aggravated intentional harassment, alarm and distress and criminal damage.

Mathers has previous convictions from 2015 for public order and assaulting a police officer.

He was also imprisoned for eight weeks in August 2016 for public nuisance after staging an hour-long rooftop protest in Gardner Street, Brighton.

Chairman of the magistrates Andrew Tiffen sentenced Mathers to a curfew order meaning Mathers has to stay indoors between 6pm and 6am for eight weeks.

He was also ordered to pay £100 in court costs, £100 in compensation to Mr Ahmed and £80 to the police for the deep clean.