Mark Winstanley, 36, hurled vile abuse at the parking attendant on a street in Chester in March this year.
During the tirade of slurs he called his victim a 'black t***' and a 'f****** n*****'.
Today, Winstanley was sentenced to 200 hours community service and made to pay £100 compensation, after admitting committing a racially aggravating hate crime. The traffic warden's body-camera captured the unpleasant incident, which erupted after Winstanley spent six minutes parked on double yellow lines while he 'went to Sainsbury's and the bookies'.
Winstanley, from Chester, screamed at his victim and accused him of being a liar before threatening to 'f** him up' and getting in his car to speed off.
He raged: 'So I'm allowed five minutes, I've been here for six minutes so you waited one minute. Well I'm off. Okay you black t***. 'You're a f****** dead man, I'm going to f*** you up, you n*****. I will be back round in a minute. You watch you're f****** self.'
Not content with one outburst, Winstanley came back to the scene a short time later and subjected the warden to a second onslaught of insults.
On returning, he said: 'You f****** liar, I weren't here for more than five minutes.
'You are a liar and a c*** and I'm going to appeal this anyway. F****** n*****.' After the verbal attack, Winstanley was traced by police and was arrested when he attended Blacon police station, in Chester.
As well as pleading guilty to the hate crime, he also admitted several driving offences and was banned from driving for six months and six points have been added to his licence.
Senior Crown Prosecutor Simon Pover said: 'The whole shocking incident was captured on the traffic warden's body camera.
'This was vital evidence in this case and probably led Winstanley to plead guilty to the charges at an early opportunity.
'When the traffic warden approached him on that day, Winstanley was parked on double yellow lines, he had no insurance and no driving licence - driving offences for which he was also charged and to which he also pleaded guilty.
'The traffic warden was just doing his job on that day but suffered a series of racist insults as a result.
'The Crown Prosecution Service prosecuted the case as racially aggravated hate crime and the sentence was increased to take account of that element of the offending.
'When we can prove to a court that a case is a hate crime, we will ask for an uplifted sentence to reflect the serious impact on the whole community of such offending.'
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