A LOWLIFE teen who pelted a homeless woman with eggs and flour before posting it on Snapchat today claimed HE'S the one "too scared" to go outside after the sick attack.

Cohan Semple whinged he has received death threats on social media after posting a picture humiliating the vulnerable woman on a park bench in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk.

The 18-year-old pleaded guilty to using threatening behaviour which caused harassment, alarm or distress at Ipswich Magistrates Court yesterday. He will be sentenced next month.

Asked if he wanted to apologise for the incident, he told Sun Online that he wasn't ready due to the death threats he's received online.

He said: "I’m struggling to leave the house at the moment.

"Since those pictures have gone on Facebook, I’ve had death threats from random people."

Two 15-year-olds, one 16-year-old and one 17-year-old, who cannot be identified due to their age, also pleaded guilty to the same charge yesterday.

Each of those four boys were sentenced to a 12-month referral order and ordered to pay the victim £100 compensation and £105 costs.

A sixth boy, aged 17, denies the charge and was bailed to appear at Ipswich Youth Court next February for trial.

Locals said the teens were known local troublemakers but have 'gone quiet' since the attack appalled the nation.

Shopkeeper Olga Jegorova, 58, said: “His [Semple's] friends are the troublemakers.But they are so quiet now, they used to cause a lot of problems."

Another local worker added: "It is better now. That boy and his friends used to always be here causing trouble.

"Now it is quiet, like they are scared after what happened."

Wayne Ablett, prosecuting the case at Ipswich Youth Court, said the victim Janice Morris, 49, is "classed by police as a vulnerable adult with mental health issues".

Mr Ablett told the court a group of youths approached her and asked her questions about drugs before one boy came behind the bench and spat at her.

He told the court: “She describes the rest of the boys laughing and goading her.”

The group went to a shop and returned five minutes later with flour and eggs.

"She said the boys were still laughing and one of them had taken a photograph of her."

He added: "Following the publication of that image on Snapchat it went on Facebook then effectively the whole world can see the photograph, which is quite humiliating for the victim in this case."

Police, who visited Ms Morris that evening, found she was still covered in flour and had "smudged mascara down her face".

In an interview with police, Semple was asked if he "thought it was funny what they had done" and replied "no comment", Mr Ablett said.

He added: “Since that had been posted he said he had received death threats and now feels remorseful for what happened.

"He said he didn't intend for the photo to be out in the public domain."

Chairman of the bench Simon Islett, sentencing the four boys, said: "This was a nasty attack, a very nasty incident on a very vulnerable lady. She must have been terrified."