A WHITE supremacist who was jailed for a vicious attack on an Asian man in south Wales deserved every day of his five-year sentence, top judges ruled.

Richard John Harris, 39, attacked Zahoor Hussain in Blackwood, hitting him with a beer bottle on the eve of Fusilier Lee Rigby's funeral in July 2013.

"You should get out of here, this isn't your country - you are all terrorists," he shouted before launching the attack.

Mr Hussain was hit so hard his ear was almost severed from his scalp.

Harris, of Pritchard Terrace, Fleur de Lys, was convicted of racially aggravated wounding at Cardiff Crown Court and jailed in January.

He appealed, but was today told by three senior judges in London that his sentence was fully justified.

"The sentence imposed in this case cannot even arguably be said to be manifestly excessive for this serious offence," said Mrs Justice Cox.

The court heard Mr Hussain had been working at an event and was relaxing outside the Mornington Lodge hotel afterwards when he was targeted.

Harris shouted, asking two white women why they were sitting with "terrorists".

Mr Hussain approached to calm him down, but was instead subjected to a torrent of vile racist abuse.

When Mr Hussain explained he was in fact British, Harris launched a savage attack, hitting him with the beer bottle.

When police took Harris' mobile phone, they found racist white power-related music and pictures stored on it.

He also had a tattoo, which he explained meant "we must secure the race of white people".

Appealing, he claimed his sentence was too long and complained of the impact his imprisonment was having on his children.

Mrs Justice Cox, sitting with Lady Justice Sharp and Judge Jeffrey Pegden QC, rejected the appeal bid.

''In the circumstances, there are no arguable grounds that the sentence was manifestly excessive," she said.