Justin Bieber fan jailed for threatening Muslim taxi driver with machete
A JUSTIN Bieber fan has been jailed after threatening a Muslim taxi driver with a machete, calling him a "baby killer" and threatening to "chop him up".
Shaun Murray, left, was arrested outisde the Principality Stadium after brandishing a machete
Shaun Murray, 27, had travelled more than 300 miles to Cardiff to see the music star on his Purpose world tour in June.
But with an hour to go before the gates opened, Murray flew into a rage when the cab driver asked him to move his car, which was parked in a taxi rank.
In front of hundreds of teenage fans, Murray launched into a rant at the driver, while waving a machete.
Murray shouted: "They are dirty Muslims, they are baby killers, they carry nail bombs" Cardiff Crown Court heard.
Prosecutor Ian Kolvin said: ""His manner and behaviour was extremely aggressive, he told the taxi driver to 'f****** move your car.
"He did so repeatedly and called him a mother f*****."
Mr Kolvin said other taxi drivers tried to calm Murray down but he "continued to be abusive, using the F-word and demonstrated racist hostility,".
"He said: "You shouldn't be in this country.' "He was then seen to have what appeared to be a machete.
"He shouted: 'They are dirty Muslims, they are baby killers, they carry nail bombs'.
"If you don't move your car I'm going to chop you."
Security carry out searches at Justin Bieber concert in Cardiff
Other taxi drivers and door staff from a nearby bar detained and apprehended Murray before police arrived in the afternoon of June 30.
The machete was found and recovered by police and Murray was arrested.
Murray, of Newcastle admitted causing religiously aggravated fear and possession of an offensive weapon.
He was jailed for ten months.
Murray was arrested an hour before the show was due to start
Murray had driven 300 miles from Newcastle to see Justin Bieber peform
Shaun Murray has been jailed for 10 months
Judge Jeremy Jenkins said: "You became almost immediately violent and abusive.
"When the taxi driver was trying to reason with you, you told him to f*** off, f****** go back to your own country.
"Anyone behaving in the way you did, using words that you did is by by the very nature a racist.
"The words you used in public were deeply offensive."
Murray had driven from Newcastle-upon-Tyne to South Wales with his younger brother Edward Graham, 19, to see the Canadian singer.
Around 50,000 fans attended the concert - which turned out to be his penultimate before he cancelled a further 14 dates.