A WOMAN racially abused her Polish housemate and told him “ you need to go home we don’t want you here”, York Magistrates Court heard.

Krystyna Sierbien, 29, also slapped the victim, spat at him and told him “sleep well, I am going to ..... kill you”, said Simon Ostler prosecuting.

The incident started at 1.30am and lasted for two and a half hours.

York-born Sierbien, a British citizen of Polish origin, now of Ferdinand Street, Camden, London, pleaded guilty to racial assault.

She also admitted that her actions breached a 12-month conditional discharge imposed for an unrelated assault in May.

District judge Adrian Lower told her: “You are someone who for all I know will have been on the end of unpleasant comments because of your east European origin.

“You would appreciate just how hurtful it is to pick on someone because they are not obviously white English.”

He ordered her to do 100 hours’ unpaid work and pay her former housemate £100 compensation plus £85 prosecution costs and an £85 statutory surcharge.

Defence solicitor Scott McLaughlin said there was no issue between the two housemates and for the victim the attack came out of the blue.

Sierbien had been drunk at the time, as she had been when she committed the unrelated assault.

She had chosen the most unpleasant insult she could but wasn’t a racist. Had the housemate been overweight, she would have said something offensive about him being fat.

She had been “quite isolated” in York. When she had spare time from her job at a hotel, drank quite heavily to help her cope.

She had now moved to London for a new life where she had a job in a bar and was no longer drinking.

Mr Ostler said the victim had managed to restrain Sierbien when she first went to his room at 1.30am on November 15, and push her out, but she had managed to get back in and knocked him to the floor.

She had left and returned. He had called police, who had calmed her down.