Tottenham fan gets three-year ban for mocking Hillsborough tragedy
LIVERPOOL, England — A Tottenham fan was banned from attending soccer matches for 3 years on Tuesday for making gestures mocking the Hillsborough catastrophe throughout a Premier League sport towards Liverpool.
Kieron Darlow, a 25-year-old man from Welwyn, north of London, made the gestures at a sport between the groups at Anfield on April 30, British prosecutors mentioned.
“Darlow was laughing and those who challenged him said he caused real alarm and distress,” the Crown Prosecution Service mentioned.
Darlow’s ban additionally prevents him from being within the neighborhood of stadiums.
“Darlow admitted making a gesture towards the Liverpool fans and that this was a reference to the Hillsborough disaster,” prosecutor Andrew Page mentioned. “He admitted that this was to recommend that followers with out tickets had pushed ahead within the tragedy and had been partly guilty for the crush that led to so many deaths.
“He accepted at court that it was his intention that Liverpool fans should see this and that it would cause them harassment, alarm and distress. He admitted that his behavior was unacceptable and regrets his actions.”
Ninety-seven Liverpool followers died on account of a crush at Hillsborough in 1989, making it Britain’s worst sporting catastrophe.
A jury at an inquest dominated in 2016 that the followers had been unlawfully killed amid various police errors.
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