A hungry teenager unleashed a racist tirade at a Dundee takeaway that messed up his order and told police: “I just really hate peppers and onions.”
Steven Sinclair’s JustEat delivery included vegetables he asked to have removed so phoned the Azaad Tandoori in Whitfield to launch an expletive-laden rant.
When staff hung up, he drove to the takeaway to racially abuse them.
An employee, pretending to phone police, filmed his hate-filled diatribe.
Sinclair, 18, appeared at Dundee Sheriff Court and pled guilty to two charges of acting in a racially aggravated manner towards staff at the takeaway in The Hawthorns on June 25 this year.
He has spent nearly three weeks on remand for the offence.
Vicious racist rant
Fiscal depute Calum Gordon said Sinclair placed his order at 4.50pm and the shop received a phone call 40 minutes later.
An employee answered and Sinclair explained he had asked for no peppers or onions on his meal, while yelling obscenities down the phone at her.
His fiery phone call ended when the worker hung up on him but the court heard Sinclair was not finished.
At 6pm, he drove to the shop and stormed in, shouting at the same employee: “I didn’t want onions and peppers on my food… you f***ing P*ki.”
At this point, a male employee rushed from the kitchen as he heard shouting.
Sinclair turned his rant towards him and said: “I wanted no onions and peppers.
“You’re a b*****d, a P*ki b*****d.”
“I know what car is yours, I’ll smash it up.”
The man began to pretend to phone police but secretly filmed Sinclair until he left.
Apology letter written to victims
Police were then contacted and used the JustEat order details to trace Sinclair at his home in Glenconnor Drive at 11pm.
He told officers: “I just really hate onions and peppers.”
At a court hearing two days later, Sinclair was remanded in custody, from where he appeared by videolink for the court hearing.
His solicitor Anika Jethwa said: “He has struggled with prison.”
She explained he is due to start a construction course at college next month.
She said, as well as writing a letter to the sheriff, Sinclair had written a letter of apology to the two members of staff he abused.
Sinclair held the letter up to the screen for the court.
Sheriff Alastair Carmichael deferred sentencing until August 15 for reports and released Sinclair on bail, adding he hoped this would give him the opportunity to “press the restart button.”
