A Slough fraudster serving a suspended sentence has been jailed after racially abusing two people.

Edward Cash, 37, threatened a man and a woman with violence in Slough on September 11, 2021.

Cash, of Drift Way, Colnbrook, was already serving a 24-week suspended prison sentence for pretending to be from Trading Standards in order to defraud someone of £4,500 in Guildford in 2020.

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He was sentenced to a total of 24 weeks in prison, 12 weeks for each offence, at Reading Magistrates Court on January 7.

The court found his most recent offence to be both racially and religiously aggravated.

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Cash pleaded not guilty but was found guilty.

The judge imposed a restraining order meaning Cash cannot contact the victims directly or indirectly until January 6, 2023.

He was not ordered to pay costs or a surcharge to fund victim’s services.