A RACIST lout told the cop who nicked him for spitting at a market manager: “You need setting on fire.”

Drunken down-and-out Scott Archer used a vile racist slur 'some 30 times' during the 57 minute journey from Gloucester Green to the police station. 

He was locked up for 44 weeks by an Oxford judge in May, but moaned to the Court of Appeal the sentence was 'manifestly excessive'.

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Two top judges in London yesterday (August 30) threw out the 45-year-old’s appeal.

Giving the judgment, Recorder of Southwark Judge Usha Karu slammed: “This was utterly disgraceful, racist, generally appalling behaviour.”

She added: “Standing back, we are satisfied the sentence for the overall offending was just and proportionate.”

Earlier, the court heard that Archer was drunk and verbally abusing members of the public in Gloucester Green on April 27 when market manager Tim Palliser went to speak to him.

The lout was 'immediately hostile' and began shouting abuse at Mr Palliser and a colleague.

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He spat at the market manager, hitting him in the face.

Mr Palliser was joined by a colleague, cleaner Gerald McDonald, and Archer made a vile racist remark making fun of the Scotsman’s accent.

The lout also tried to spit at the cleaner - but missed.

Police took an hour to turn up. During the journey to the police station, Archer peppered female PC Cottle-M’Boge with racist abuse.

He told the cop: "You need setting on fire”, “die, die” and demanded that she “go back across the border”.

Archer was said to use a particular racial slur 'some 30 times'.

It took five officers to get him out of the van when they arrived at the police station.

PC Cottle-M’Boge was “overwhelmingly upset” by Archer’s racist abuse. Market manager Tim Palliser was “severely shaken”.

Homeless Archer, who has amassed 52 convictions since 1993, pleaded guilty to racially-aggravated harassment, assault and possession of cannabis.

Less than a year earlier he had been given a six week suspended prison sentence by a judge in Carlisle for racially abusing members of the public.

At Oxford Crown Court in May, Judge Ian Pringle KC jailed Archer for 38 weeks for the latest crimes, and added six weeks for the suspended sentence breach.

But yesterday, defence barrister George Joseph told the Court of Appeal that the 44 week jail time was manifestly excessive.

The judge took a starting point before factoring-in the racist element to the crime or any mitigation that was too high, he argued.

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Mr Joseph said the judge should not have imposed extra jail time - called consecutive sentences - for assaulting the market manager and cleaner.

And he claimed Judge Pringle had not paid enough thought to the overall length of the sentence, known as 'totality'.

But his submissions were slapped down by the Court of Appeal, who said the Oxford judge’s approach to sentencing was 'entirely right'.