A TEENAGE chef who launched an attack on a gay couple, whacking one of them with his own shoe, has been put behind bars.

Ashton Soloman-Cameron was captured on CCTV as he drunkenly landed a number of blows on businessmen Scott and Jason Davenport in the early hours of a Sunday morning.

The Davenports, both 32, were walking along Paradise Street on October 10 when 19-year-old Soloman-Cameron reacted after mistakenly believing he was being racially abused, Oxford Crown Court heard yesterday.

Rachel Drake, prosecuting, said: “Jason and Scott Davenport were walking up the street and Jason Davenport called to Scott, referring to him as ‘black man’ as he was wearing a black coat.

“The defendant inferred it as a racial insult. Both Messrs Davenports were conciliatory and offered to shake his hand, but he punched one of them, Jason, who falls to the ground.”

Miss Drake then played the CCTV footage to the court.

In it, Soloman-Cameron, of Falcon Close, Blackbird Leys, Oxford, can be seen repeatedly punching and stamping on Scott Davenport, even attacking him with one of his trainers when it falls off.

Jason Davenport suffered a displaced fracture of one of his ankles and is still undergoing physiotherapy. His partner sustained cuts and bruises and two chipped teeth.

The attacker, a chef at Oxford University’s Worcester College with previous convictions for battery and a public order offence, was seen by witnesses to walk off after being called by his girlfriend.

He admitted at an earlier hearing causing grievous bodily harm and actual bodily harm.

Lucy Tapper, defending, said: “It’s surprising, perhaps, seeing that degree of unprovoked violence from somebody who doesn’t have a violent nature.

“It’s a horrible, horrible incident and nobody would be more prepared to admit that than Mr Soloman-Cameron, but it does come out of character.”

Miss Tapper said her client was “quiet, polite and clearly hard-working” and “feels absolutely sickened to his stomach when he sees the behaviour he engaged in on that night”.

She added Soloman-Cameron thought he heard the men use the term “black b******”, but said he did not seek to use this as an excuse for his reaction.

Sending him to a young offenders’ institute for 10 months, of which half will be served in custody, Judge Patrick Eccles said: “You are bringing misery and shame upon yourself and you have brought hardship to your family and, more importantly, the victims.

“You have affected the future of the two victims in a serious way. It was a very nasty attack.”