LONDON: A Sikh football fan has been targeted in a vile and racist letter due to his “skin colour” after he put up British flags on his shop window, according to media reports. Gagan, 31, received the anonymous letter last week which claimed he should not support for England during the World Cup because he is Indian – and it is ‘betraying the Asian community, The Sun reported. The manager of GMS Heating and Plumbing was accused of forgetting his motherland and his skin colour in the poison pen letter.He raised the flag for the first time last Wednesday at the store in Ilford, East London, and received the note the following day. “You have put (the) wrong flag outside your shop when you have come from India. Have you forgot your skin colour? You should put the Pakistan flag outside your shop not British,” the letter said.Bizarrely, the letter also addressed as ‘Dear Uncle’, according to Gagan, was filled with spelling mistakes of grammatical errors, as well as the hateful content. “If National Front skinheads saw this flag outside they will kick you back to India without your trousers on,” the letter said. The defiant business owner said his father immediately went out to purchase four more flags after opening the letter. He said: “We’re just trying to have some fun and people want to ruin it by saying it should not be done.

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