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A man who attacked a dog walker and shouted homophobic abuse at another man 'because he did not want gay men using Barnes Common' has been slapped with a community order.

Robbie Wohanka, 29, of Lower Richmond Road in Wandsworth, was convicted of assault and using threatening, abusive or insulting words after a trial at Wimbledon Magistrates' Court on March 10.

He was today sentenced to an 18-month community order and told to carry out 200 hours of unpaid work after abusing his victims in March and April 2016.

The court applied an uplift to the sentence after the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) argued that the offences were motivated partly or wholly by the victim's perceived sexual orientation.

London CPS reviewing lawyer Robert Short said: “Robbie Wohanka aggressively confronted walkers on Barnes Common because he believed they were gay.

“The CPS case was that his actions were motivated by hostility towards the victims based on their sexual orientation and his attempts to scare men off led on one occasion to violence.

“His victims were targeted because Wohanka did not want gay men using the common.”