A DISABLED fan of controversial comedian Roy Chubby Brown has spoken of his distress after being singled out during a gig.

Christopher Oliver, who suffered a stroke two years ago at the age of 36, now lives with profound disabilities.

He says he was left upset and angry after heckling the loudmouthed comic and getting a barbed response.

Mr Oliver, said: “I’m learning to come to terms with the consequences of my stroke and disability and being out in public again. We’d had tickets to see Roy Chubby Brown for months.

“As he came on stage, he was being heckled by the whole audience but, after being on stage for a while, I heckled him again and he replied with, ‘I’ll get to you in a minute, you’re the one sat with the handicapped people’.

“Now that’s true, I was sat among wheelchair users, people with spina bifida, the learning disabled and he shouldn’t have come out with it."

He added: “I’m coming to terms with getting out and about after my stroke and mingling with people again and I’m using a mobility scooter and this kind of comment really puts you down.”

He added that Brown’s act had become increasingly vulgar and that his use of racial epithets was outrageous and unjustified.

He said: “If he didn’t use the n-word once, he used it a thousand times. I don’t know how he can get away with it when members of the public are being banged up for it.

“At the end of the day, he’s having a laugh and a joke but there are boundaries. He’s been to Barrow before and he knows where disabled people sit. I spoke to some of the carers after the event and they said they were offended as well.

“I was reminded that on the tickets it says: ‘If you’re highly offended, please stay away.' I was at a show four years ago and it was nothing like it was now. We knew what we were going to but we didn’t expect this.”

Steven Lloyd, Brown’s manager, responded to the accusation by saying that Brown was simply responding to a heckle.

He said: “I don’t know the full story myself, because I wasn’t there, but I do know that the man who complained was shouting things at Roy first.

“Roy doesn’t go out to deliberately upset some people, he’s got a set act. But if someone shouts out, he’ll reply with whatever’s in his head and we don’t know what he’s going to say, there’s no script."

Sandra Baines, manager of The Forum, said that Brown would not be returning to the venue in the future.

She said: “Mr Oliver was clearly upset about comments made at the event.

"He spoke to a member of our team mid-way through the performance and was offered a full refund if he wanted to leave. He chose to watch the rest of the show and we have in any case refunded the cost of his ticket.

“There are no plans to bring Roy Chubby Brown back to The Forum."