A man shouted “abusive and insulting” homophobic slurs at police officers and smeared his own excrement across his cell.

Nicholas Lowe, 43, kicked a police officer in the chest and threatened to kick the windows out of a police car after he was detained outside last year.

Lowe, of Charlotte Street, Brighton, was spared jail after pleading guilty to three separate accounts of assaulting an emergency worker.

Brighton Magistrates’ Court heard that police officers were called to East Street on December 16 last year when bouncers reported a “problematic” male approaching people and being “rude and aggressive” and “trying to pick a fight”.

After threatening to knock out the officers, Lowe kicked PC Ivan Tickner in the chest and spat on his.

He later called PC Dan Gray a “f*****”.

The court later heard that after being taken to custody, Lowe defecated in his custody cell and smeared this over the walls of the room.

In a victim statement, PC Gray said he was “harassed and alarmed” by Lowe’s homophobic abuse, calling his language “abusive and insulting”.

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Sentencing Lowe, Magistrate Shirley Venning said: “All of the things we have heard today are really, really unpleasant and horrible.

“You repeatedly assaulted emergency workers and police officers and made a series of homophobic insults and remarks.”

Lowe pleaded guilty to three separate counts of assault by beating of an emergency worker.

He also pleaded guilty to two counts of using threatening and abusive or insulting words to cause alarm or distress and two counts of criminal damage.

He was handed a 26-week suspended sentence and ordered to pay £650 in compensation.