A THUG jailed for a violent racially-motivated attack on a shopkeeper could lose his home if it happens again.

Council tenant Tudor Carrington, 53, of Healey Grove, Heworth, York, was jailed for 12 months in October for racial harassment towards local shopkeeper Claude Wray, of Monkton Road.

City of York Council's tenancy enforcement team have now taken action to have Carrington evicted, and a judge at York County Court gave them a two-year suspended possession order.

Under the terms of the order made by District Judge Handley, Carrington is on a warning to ensure that he commits no further breaches of his tenancy agreement.

Judge Handley told Carrington: "You realise that this is your last chance."

Carrington was in court following his release from prison after serving half his sentence and he agreed to the terms of the order which will remain in force until May 10, 2008.

It means he is also forbidden from causing harassment, alarm or distress to Mr Wray and that includes encouraging anyone else to do the same, including his family and friends.

In October, The Press reported how father-of-two Carrington was jailed for an "extreme, prolonged and violent attack".

Carrington beat Mr Wray with a pickaxe handle as the shopkeeper's terrified family looked on.

The entire attack, at Monkton Road Stores in Bell Farm, was captured on CCTV and a jury convicted Carrington of affray following a trial.

Sentencing Carrington at Leeds Crown Court, Judge Jim Spencer told him the general public would think the courts were simply not doing their job if he failed to send him to jail.

Two attackers laid siege to Mr Wray's grocery store on November 3, 2003. Mr Wray had to fend them off with a bread bin as his four-year-old son shouted: "Leave my daddy alone".

Video footage proved one of the thugs was Carrington - the other has never been traced.

After Carrington's trial, Mr Wray told The Press he had pledged to stand up to the gangs of yobs that blight the area. Tenancy enforcement manager Neil McFarlane said: "Mr Carrington should now realise there is a very serious threat of him losing his home if he should breach the terms of this order.

"He can now be in no doubt at all that this type of behaviour will not be tolerated and should it happen again swift and decisive action will be taken. The message we want people to take away from this is that race-hate is a crime and we urge anyone who is a victim of it to report it to the police because it is a criminal offence."

Updated: 10:59 Monday, May 15, 2006