Craig Stephenson, 54, had no pre-existing quarrel with the woman, who kept a large Persian-style ceramic pot plant holder out the front of her Corrimal home.  

Stephenson was drunk and walking to his front door the evening of October 24, when he noticed the pot.

He picked it up and threw it on the ground, smashing it.

“Go back to your f—king country and clean up this f—king mess”, he called, as the woman came to investigate the noise. 

Stephenson, in custody, appeared before Wollongong Local Court on Friday, having pleaded guilty to charges of intentionally or recklessly destroying property, resisting arrest and two counts of assaulting a police officer.

Details of the exchange failed to impress sentencing magistrate Michael Stoddart. 

“Sounds like he’s a racist to me,” Magistrate Stoddart said. 

“That may [have been] the alcohol speaking,” Stephenson’s lawyer said.  

“Maybe. Anyway, it sounds like he’s in the right place.” 

The court heard Stephenson was in an aggravated state when confronted by police later that evening. 

“Helping the f--king wog out – you’re f—ked,” he told them. “Send her back where she f—king belongs.”

He punched one police officer in the chest and pushed a second officer, also in the chest. 

Police say he was thrashing his arms and throwing punches as they attempted to arrest him.

He was tackled to the ground, handcuffed and constrained. 

Stephenson’s lawyer told the court his client had undergone laser treatment that morning for severe arthritis to his neck. 

The treatment could cause drowsiness, and perhaps hadn’t paired well with the three schooners of beer he then downed that afternoon, he suggested.

The magistrate considered Stephenson’s “extensive” criminal history.

He was sentenced to six months jail, to be released in April, 2017.