A beautician who spat at and called a mixed-race bouncer the N-word 25 times after he refused her entry to a club has avoided jail.
Sharon Quinn, 28, was denied entry to the Banff club in Southport after arriving drunk and throwing a drink over a man in the queue.
The bouncer, Ethan Obom, returned to the entrance at 2am and found Ms Quinn was still there.
He asked her to leave and in response she spat in his face, went on a racist tirade and threatened to smash the windows of Mr Obom’s home and assault his fiancée and child.
Her partner then punched Mr Obom.
Mr Obom called the police but shortly after his girlfriend Jessica Humphreys said their front bay windows had been smashed in.
Ms Quinn denied smashing the windows and blamed her behaviour on losing her mother, grandmother and best friend in the space of a year.
In a statement Mr Obom said: ‘Miss Quinn said to me: “I am going to come to your house and throw a brick through your window. I am going to smash your girlfriend’s head in and smash your kid’s head in”. I tried to get her out of the queue and at this point Miss Quinn’s boyfriend punched me.
Sharon Quinn, (pictured) 28, was denied entry to the Banff club in Southport after arriving drunk and throwing a drink over a man in the queue
A beautician who spat at and called Ethan Obom (pictured) the N-word 25 times after he refused her entry to a club has avoided jail
‘Miss Quinn made threats to smash my windows and a short time later, the windows to my girlfriend’s property were damaged.
‘I am fearful that she will return to my girlfriend’s property. If I am not around. I do not know what she will do. That night I immediately left work as I did not feel it was safe to leave my partner and child in the property on their own.’
At Liverpool Magistrates’ Court, Ms Quinn pleaded guilty to making threats to damage property, assault and racially aggravated intentional harassment on October 27, 2024.
The beautician from Ainsdale, Merseyside, who went to school with Mr Obom was sentenced to a 12 month community order with requirements that she complete 20 days of rehabilitation activity and wears a sobriety tag for 120 days as part of an alcohol monitoring programme.
She was also given a restraining order prohibiting her from contacting or approaching Mr Obom for two years and she was made to pay him £100 in compensation along with £199 in prosecution costs and surcharge.
‘On the night I was at the entrance where clientelle usually queue,’ Mr Obom added, ‘I saw Miss Quinn but as I went to speak with her I saw her having an argument with another male.
‘She threw a drink and I denied her entry due to her behaviour.’
Mr Obom who is mixed race, black and white British said the racist abuse caused him ‘alarm and distress’.
At Liverpool magistrates court Ms Quinn pleaded guilty to making threats to damage property, assault and racially aggravated intentional harassment
Ms Quinn, who has one child, studied hair and beauty at Southport College had a previous motoring conviction from 2022 for failing to provide a specimen of breath.
Her lawyer Alison Sharples said in mitigation: ‘She has never accepted that she was the person who caused the damage to the window. But she accepts that she made threats to cause criminal damage.
‘The complainant is known to her. as they went to school together. But it is clear more went on than meets the eye. She is a young woman who has a lot going on dealing with multiple mental health diagnoses. You can see what happened in relation to her mum.
‘It was absolutely horrific for her to have to deal with that as a young woman. On the day in question she actually said in one of the messages to the complainant, ‘I was not myself’. She accepts that she was drinking to excess and behaved in a manner that was completely unacceptable and wrong. She held her hands up and said ‘I know I have done something wrong.’
‘This offence was borne out of having too much alcohol of the night and the stress of everything else she has been dealing with the last few years’.
In sentencing JP Linda Phillips said: ‘I suggest that you do not drink alcohol now.’
