Michael Shields confessor jailed for racial abuse

Apr 10 2008

GRAHAM Sankey was today jailed for a foul-mouthed racist outburst.

Sankey, 22, who once confessed to the attack for which Michael Shields was jailed, was sentenced to five months at Liverpool crown court.

The Anfield electrician was jailed after the court heard he subjected a Liverpool doorman to a tirade of racist swearing, then told police it was a “white man’s country.”

Sankey, of Charnley Drive, Wavertree, retracted his confession to the Michael Shields incident in Bulgaria three years ago and now denies he was involved.

The court today heard how the 22-year-old was drinking at the city centre Walkabout Bar, in Concert Square, on August 23 last year.

He launched his tirade when doorman Solomon Fadipe asked him to leave because the bar was closing.

Ben Morris, defending, conceded his client told police England was a “white man’s country and he shouldn’t be arrested for abusing a black man.”

He said Sankey was genuinely ashamed and remorseful.

The 22-year-old admitted causing racially aggravated harassment, fear or violence when he changed his plea at the last minute at a hearing in March.