Pikey is now a race hate word.

A gardener is thought to have made legal history after being convicted of racially aggravated harassment for using the word 'pikey'.
Lee Coleman repeatedly used the term, a derogatory reference to gypsies and Travellers, in a drunken outburst over a nightclub entry fee.
He was arrested after hurling abuse at a manageress and punching a bouncer at the club.
The 28-year-old denied the charges at first before pleading guilty.
He told the manageress, who had asked him to pay the £3.50 fee to enter Bugatti's in Crowborough, East Sussex, in March to 'p*** off', magistrates in Lewes heard.
Prosecutor Simon Allen claimed Coleman had said: 'I'm not paying you, you pikey.' When told to leave he added: 'She is a pikey, she has nicked my mate's jacket.'
Coleman, of Crowborough, was given a 12-month community order and told to do 200 hours of unpaid work. He was also ordered to pay £50 compensation to the doorman and £100 court costs.
He admitted assaulting the bouncer.
The Crown Prosecution Service said it was unaware of any previous convictions for using the word 'pikey' in a racial context.
In September, Marco Pierre-White was rapped for using the expression 'pikey's picnic' on ITV reality show Hell's Kitchen. It sparked a row with ex-Blue star Lee Ryan, who walked out of the show.


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Beat someone up and the Police are not really interested but call someone a pikey and no stone is unturned to get a conviction.The only problem is pikeys are not a race so how it can be racist I dont know and the fact that the person who he called a pikey presumably wasnt a pikey means just calling someone names can get you a criminal record.My view is that the scrote should have had the book thrown at him for assaulting someone  but to treat name calling as an equal or more serious offence than physical assault is just crazy.