Man, 70, jailed after sending racist letters to Lord Sugar | Celebrity News | Showbiz & TV
The correspondences were opened by The Apprentice star’s assistant and referred to the police.
Patrick Gomes, 70, denied sending the letters in 2018, but was found guilty at an earlier trial of religiously aggravated harassment, putting those targeted in fear of violence.
He was jailed for three years and six months at Chelmsford Crown Court yesterday and handed an indefinite restraining order not to contact Lord Sugar.
Adam Pearson, prosecuting, said a passage in one of the letters said: “I would round all of you up and put you into camps ready for deportation.” Another referred to “shoving your screaming head into a hot oven – we call it baking Jewish bread”.
One letter was signed “the Jew hater”.
The businessman said in a statement read in court: “The whole incident has shaken me up and I’m now always looking over my shoulder in case someone is close to me and about to attack me or my family.”
Gomes was arrested at his home in Leyton, east London, in March 2019 after his DNA and fingerprints were found on one of the letters.
Judge Timothy Walker said:”Society will not tolerate behaviour such as yours”.
