A BOY of ten was left too terrified to leave home after a racist thug daubed "no blacks" on his front door.

Vaughan Dowd, 54, spray painted the sickening graffiti outside Jackson Yamba and son David's flat just five days after they moved in.

Jackson, 38, a solicitor, spotted the scrawl on his way to work when his boy said: “Daddy, something is written on the front door”.

Prosecutor Joshua Bowker said David had been left crying afterwards and “had not wanted to go to school”.

“David has been damaged by the whole incident,” he added.

In a victim impact statement, Jackson told Manchester crown court: "The idea someone has the audacity to attack my front door of my home address and target me in this way has affected me in a lasting way.

"I'm now constantly on edge and worried about every little noise outside and it has affected my ability to sleep.”

Dowd tried to disguise himself while carrying out the attack by changing his clothes and covering his face.

But the part-time gardener, who’d also daubed "no blacks" on two other doors in the building, was caught after police checked CCTV and key fob access records.

Dowd, 54, of Salford, Gtr Manchester, had been kept in custody for his “own protection” ahead of his sentencing today.

He admitted racially aggravated criminal damage and will be sentenced following a psychiatric report on May 10.

Iain Johnstone, defending, said Dowd couldn’t explain his actions and described him as a man of previous good character “who wouldn’t say boo to a goose”.

“He cannot explain why he acted like he did,” he said.

“He does accept he was behaving irrationally before this.”

Mr Johnstone added there were concerns about Dowd’s mental health and his family had said “he was heading for a break down” leading up to the offence.

Judge Alan Conrad QC adjourned sentencing and Dowd was remanded in custody until then.

The case only came to light after Jackson, who moved to the UK from the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2006, tweeted a picture of the graffiti.

He complained that police had failed to investigate the graffiti on February 8 – more than a week after he’d reported it.

He was told there were “not enough staff to deal with it”.

It prompted an apology from the Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police, Ian Hopkins, who said the force’s response was “just not good enough”.

Mr Hopkins added: “It's an appalling crime you and your family have suffered.”

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