Tycoon’s appeal bid... but first to raise it with Boris

Millionaire convicted of racial harassment

Prime Minister Boris Johnson will have to set aside his election campaigning for a while - Fergus Wilson wants a word.

The millionaire landlord, who built up a property empire in Ashford, is not happy after being convicted for racially abusing a traffic warden who gave him a parking ticket.

The warden was from Slovakia and Mr Wilson was caught on her body-worn camera telling her “Take your stupid ******* ***** back to your own place where you came from.”

But Mr Wilson has written to the Prime Minister telling him the Crown Prosecution Service in Kent was in “chaos” and citing a number of instances from his own court case which dragged on for 18 months.

Although telling the PM he did not want Boris to “involve himself” in his own case, he said there were a number of points of concern.

He said he was originally charged with assault - that charge was dropped for lack of evidence.

He was also charged with harassment, stemming, he said, from the fact that he encountered the same traffic warden a second time - ironically when he was leaving the police station after being interviewed over the first offence. He said despite the charge being downgraded, a harassment element continued to appear.

However, Mr Wilson’s biggest beef was with the concept of racial abuse.

The 71- year- old told the Prime Minister, that he, Boris, Mr Wilson (in his younger pregrey days) and the traffic warden were all blond-haired and blue-eyed. “We’re all the same race,” he said, “so how could I be racially abusing her?”

When he had raised that with the CPS, he was told the racial charge could be applied to nationality. Yet the traffic warden, despite being born in Slovakia was married to an Englishman and also had British nationality.

He told the Prime Minister: “I think this matter of a “racially aggravated” tag really has to go to the Supreme Court for its deliberation. It is Political Correctness gone mad.”

Mr Wilson intends to appeal the conviction that saw him ordered to pay his victim £1,000 compensation, to pay £650 costs, and to carry out 30 sessions of community service and to obey a curfew for three months.

A restraining order was also put in place, banning him from having contact with his victim for two years.

Millionaire buy-to-let landlord Fergus Wilson, right, has written to Prime Minister Boris Johnson with his gripes over the way his case was handled

Fergus Wilson appeared at Medway Magistrates’ Court