A man has been jailed for "Neanderthal behaviour" after racially abusing a student on his doorstep.
The victim, a 39-year-old university student, was also sworn at and called an illegal immigrant and told he could be killed for being black.
Jacob Joseph Coughlan and another man threw insults at the shocked victim after he politely asked them to move their van, which was blocking his driveway.
Sentencing Coughlan at Leicester Crown Court, Judge Michael Pert QC said: "This was Neanderthal behaviour, speaking to people like that because of the colour of their skin.
"You assuming some position of authority or superiority because you're white and he's not, it defies belief.
"It won't be tolerated in a civilised society."
The victim said the verbal tirade left him feeling, "hollow, upset, afraid and intimidated".
In a statement, he said: "How can two people harbour so much hatred towards me just because of the colour of my skin?"
The incident happened in Ashthorpe Road, Braunstone, Leicester, at 8.15pm on May 30.
Alan Murphy, prosecuting, said the victim returned home by car to find two strangers – the defendant and an unknown accomplice – had parked a van across his driveway.
He asked them to move. Mr Murphy said: "The response from one of them was 'Go and park in your own country'.
Coughlan (21) told the man: "This is Braunstone. We own this town and street.
"Go back to Zimbabwe, Somalia, Jamaica or wherever you come from'."
Mr Murphy said the van was eventually moved. He said as the victim was going to his front door, Coughlan's associate clenched his fist in an aggressive manner and said: "Can I blow his head off?" He then said: "I kill people like you."
"The complainant replied, 'People like me?' The defendant said, 'Black people'."
Coughlan, of Canon Street, Belgrave, Leicester, admitted racially aggravated harassment and putting someone in fear of violence.
He also admitted burgling a house in Glenfield Road, Leicester, on July 20, when he was caught making off with a £300 watch.
He asked for 10 other house burglaries to be considered and admitted the offences put him in breach of a six-week suspended jail sentence.
Coughlan told police he was not a racist, despite having a 2009 previous conviction for a racially aggravated threatening behaviour and possessing a knife having threatened to "cut up" a black man in a street.
Nigel Mitchell, defending, said Coughlan went off the rails by mixing with the wrong crowd.
Coughlan was jailed for 10 months for the racially aggravated offence, with nine months consecutively for the burglary and one month because of his suspended sentence.
