A man has been given a five-year ASBO after he repeatedly racially abused people in public.
The ASBO bans Francisco Mendonca from using racist and religiously hostile language and from being drunk and disorderly in public.
It also prohibits him from entering Pavilion Gardens in Brighton after he racially abused a security guard and a female police officer there.
When they asked him to stop drinking he told them they should go back to their own country and not take our jobs.
Mendonca, of no fixed abode, was last convicted of assaulting a resident of a hostel in Marine Parade, Brighton, on December 19, 2009.
But he has convictions dating back to 1998.
The ASBO was applied for by Sussex Police and Brighton and Hove City Council.
The council’s cabinet member for community safety Councillor Dee Simson said: “Residents deserve long-term protection from the appalling behaviour and prejudice this man has displayed time and again.
“Our lawyers and the police have done a great job here.”
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