Lord Sugar said he was left “extremely scared” after a self-confessed “Jew hater” attacked him over comments about anti-Semitism in the Labour Party.

Patrick Gomes denied sending three letters to The Apprentice star’s business address, but was found guilty at an earlier trial of religiously aggravated harassment.

The 70-year-old was jailed for three years and six months at Chelmsford Crown Court on Wednesday and handed an indefinite restraining order not to contact Lord Sugar.

Adam Pearson, prosecuting, said that one of the letters said there was “no anti-Semitic element within the Labour Party” then “went on to say the author of the letter was a Jew hater”.

One passage said: “I would round all of you up and put you into camps ready for deportation.”

Another referred to “shoving your screaming head into a hot oven – we call it baking Jewish bread”.

One letter was signed “the Jew hater”.

Lord Sugar ‘hadn’t told his family’

Mr Pearson told the court that Lord Sugar said he “had been made to feel extremely scared and upset, he hadn’t told his family as he knew how scared and upset it would make them”.

The businessman said in a statement read in court: “The whole incident has shaken me up and I’m now always looking over my shoulder in case someone is close to me and about to attack me or my family.”

Gomes sent the letters to one of Lord Sugar’s business premises in Loughton, Essex, between Oct and Dec 2018, Essex Police said.

Gomes was arrested at his home in Lyttelton Road in Leyton, east London, on Mar 19 2019 after his DNA and fingerprints were found on one of the letters.

Judge Timothy Walker said he had received a handwritten letter from the defendant in which there was “no mention of apology towards Lord Sugar, there’s no mention of remorse”.

He said the letters were “frightening and deeply offensive to Lord Sugar”, adding: “Society will not tolerate behaviour such as yours.”

The judge told Gomes: “I note no concerns are raised about your mental health.”