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Le forze dell’ ordine stanno visionando i filmati degli incidenti occorsi lo scorso sabato tra sostenitori del Carlisle e del Millwall, nonostante l’ impiego di un rilevante numero di agenti in servizio.Gli investigatori dichiarano che potrebbero esserci ulteriori arresti dopo gli undici già effettuati nelle ìmmediatezze, tre di londinesi ed otto di fans di casa. Intanto è stato condannato a quattro mesi, con pena sospesa, e due anni di diffida un tifoso del Leeds accusato di avere colpito alla testa un cane poliziotto a margine della gara interna del 2007 tra i “bianchi” ed il Millwall. Sono, invece, stati scarcerati tre supporters del Norwich, ingiustamente condannati per diversi episodi di violenza posti a carico dei fans gialloverdi, in special modo quelli con i tifosi del Leicester. In relazione a tali fatti, altri quattro appartenenti alla tifoseria del Norwich sono stati condannati a pene sospese così come sono già finiti agli arresti due sostenitori della squadra di casa.
Football thugs have sentences quashed
Norwich Evening News
07 May 2009
David Bale
“Three men jailed for their parts in one of the worst incidents of violence involving Norwich City fans for many years should not have been sent to prison, top judges ruled yesterday.
The trio were among nine Norwich fans jailed in April for their part in the large-scale disorder which occurred in Leicester city centre following a Canaries away match.
The fans were captured on CCTV, clashing with rival supporters and hurling bricks and chairs, which terrified Saturday afternoon shoppers.
Of the nine men, Mark Gilby, 44, of Greenacres Drive, Poringland, Mark Hipperson, 38, of Saxon Meadows, Bawdeswell and Michael Davies, 39, of Guernsey Road, Norwich, were each jailed for three months, after pleading guilty to threatening behaviour.
Yesterday the Court of Appeal in London ruled they should not have been jailed and instead handed them conditional discharges for their part in the violence.
However the decision came too late for the men to be released from the jail early, as they have already served their sentences and were due to be released yesterday.Their solicitor told the Evening News it was unlikely they would receive any compensation over the matter.
Speaking yesterday from his home in Bawdeswell, Mr Hipperson said it had been a “traumatic month”.
He added: “With the appeal ruling we should never have been in jail in the first place. But we have to take our punishment on the chin, and hope we can now get on with our lives.
“I’m not thinking about any claims for compensation, and I just want to get on with my life now. It was an incredibly tough experience and it was a tough regime in prison, but I don’t wish to say anymore.”
The three fans had served 29 days of their three-month sentence and had been locked up at various prisons in Bedford and Kent.
Solicitor Ian Fisher, who represented Gilby, said his client had been released the day before the hearing.
He also confirmed that the trio’s football banning orders had been reduced from six to five years.
Mr Fisher added: “I was livid with the original sentences and we appealed against them the day after they were locked up. The wheels of justice are so slow, though, that the appeal hearing was not held until yesterday.
“The Court of Appeal said the sentence was wrong and that it should been a suspended sentence. But they won’t be able to claim any compensation for being in jail.”
At yesterday’s hearing lawyers for the three argued that they were all “hard- working family men” who were “caught up in the violence”.
The court heard Davies was married and worked as a project designer for EDF Energy, and Hipperson ran his own printing business employing seven people.
Quashing the sentences yesterday, Mr Justice Lloyd Jones, sitting with Judge Stephen Stewart QC at London’s Criminal Appeal Court, said: “It was a matter of pure chance that nobody was injured.“This type of behaviour has nothing to do with football. It was gratuitous thuggery.”
But he added that all three had not been actually involved in any violence and were of previous good character.
The appeal judge concluded: “Having regard to all these factors, we consider that the sentences were too severe.”
The fans were captured on CCTV camera in Leicester city centre hurling bricks and chairs at opposition supporters following the club’s 4-0 defeat on February 16 last year.”
The nine ringleaders were initially jailed at Leicester Crown Court for a total of more than five years.
Four other City fans were given suspended sentences and orders to do unpaid work, whilst two Leicester City fans were also jailed for their part in the trouble.”
Police warn of more arrests after Carlisle Utd’s game with Millwall
News and Star
07 May 2009
By Nick Griffiths
“Police chiefs have warned there may be further arrests following the crunch match between Carlisle United and Millwall at the weekend.
Officers are scanning CCTV footage to single out any hooligans causing soccer-linked disorder in or around Brunton Park or in the city on Saturday.The message comes after 11 men were charged following a massive force operation to quell any potential problems.
More than 130 officers – some on horseback – were on duty at the ground and in the city centre during the day to stop any major disorder flaring in a potential tinderbox situation.
Emotions were running high as a large crowd flocked to watch United bid to beat relegation and there had been previous trouble when the two clubs played in the city.
The potential for problems had led to heavily policed escorts for some supporters along Warwick Road towards Brunton Park before the game.
But the force said its decisions on the day had prevented any major disorder or violence breaking out.
Chief Inspector Mark Pannone added the force would pursue football banning orders – which could bar convicted offenders from soccer stadiums – for those charged.
He also stressed the police work linked to the day was continuing.
“We will be investigating CCTV and other evidence that may result in further arrests,” he said.
“The policing operation did not stop at the end of the game. We had a significant number of risk elements from Millwall and Carlisle and we managed to ensure there was minimal disorder. We had attempts at disorder in the city and in the ground. Effective policing managed to prevent this.
“Some offences may have been committed when it wasn’t appropriate to arrest them at the time. It may be appropriate to arrest them at a later stage. We will be looking throughout Carlisle city for other offences.”
The 11 charged suspects – eight from Carlisle and three Millwall followers – face offences including public disorder and being drunk and disorderly.”
Leeds United: Yob who punched police dog spared jail
Yorkshire Evening Post
07 May 2009
By Mark Lavery
“A supporter who punched a police dog in the head when trouble flared after a Leeds United v Millwall clash has been spared jail.
A police handler instructed his dog to bite 39-year-old Michael Reilley, who was in a mob charging at police, Leeds Crown Court heard.
Prosecutor, Jonathan Sharp said that as the dog bit Reilley he punched the dog in the head using a “full swing” of his right hand.
The punch caused the dog to release its grip on Reilley.
The incident was captured on CCTV as police tried to hold back a mob of hooligans trying to get at Millwall fans kept in the ground after the match at Elland Road on October 27, 2007.
Mr Sharp said Reilley, who was shouting abuse, swearing and threatening officers, was part of a crowd police were trying to clear from Wesley Street.
Reilley was spotted making “come on” gestures to police during a lull in the trouble.
Mr Sharp said: “As a result of that the crowd erupted again.”
Reilley was arrested after police publicised photographs taken of troublemakers during the incident.
Mr Sharp said a police officer with 20 years’ experience described the level of determination shown by the mob “as high as anything he had witnessed, including the Bradford riots.”
The Recorder of Leeds, Judge Peter Collier handed Reilley a 16-week prison sentence suspended for two years with 12 months’ supervision.
He was given a two-year Football Banning Order.”