A 24-year-old man has been handed a three-year stadium ban from each stadium within the UK for racially abusing Brentford striker Ivan Toney.
Antonio Neill, who despatched the racist message to Toney over social media on October 14 final 12 months, has additionally been handed a four-month sentence suspended for 2 years.
Police began an investigation after Toney shared an image of the abuse, and the message was traced to the 24-year-old Neill, who lives in Blyth, a city in northern England.
Neill appeared in a magistrates’ courtroom in Newcastle on January 25 and pleaded responsible to sending an offensive message.
“If you are going to choose to be vile and abusive to others, doing it from behind a computer screen or on your phone doesn’t mean you’ll get away with it. Far from it,” Northumbria police and crime commissioner Kim McGuinness stated in an announcement launched Tuesday.
The order forbids Neill from attending any regulated soccer match in Britain and prevents him from touring overseas to observe worldwide friendlies, qualification matches and tournaments.
Brentford stated it hopes sentences for on-line abuse enhance and known as on social media corporations to take away all hateful content material to make their platforms protected for everybody.
