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A WOMAN who racially abused another female has been ordered to pay her compensation. Leah Foster appeared in the dock at Reading Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday, June 26. The 22-year-old, of Mill Lane, Newbury, admitted using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour towards Rehana Khan, thereby causing her harassment, alarm or distress in Newbury on September 27 last year. Ms Foster conceded that the offence was racially motivated. Magistrates fined her £180. In addition, they ordered her to pay Ms Khan £100 in compensation in lieu of costs and of an otherwise statutory victim serv…

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