Man Utd fan laughs at four-year ban for wearing vile '97 not enough' shirt mocking Hillsborough victims
A Manchester United fan has chuckled in the dock of the court after receiving a four-year football ban having admitted wearing a football shirt at Wembley Stadium which made an offensive reference to the Hillsborough disaster.
Manchester City won the FA Cup at Wembley, beating local rivals United 2-1. Ninety-seven football fans died as a result of a crush at a match between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest at Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield on April 15 1989.White was banned from all regulated football games in the UK for four years and was fined £1,000 and ordered to pay a surcharge of £400 and £85 in costs. He smiled and chuckled after the order was made.
The judge added that the shirt White wore bore a “hateful expression” – calling it an “abhorrent message” – and that the impact of his actions are “profound and distressing”. The prosecution said White, of Warwickshire, had “many” previous convictions, dating most recently to 2021, but none were football-related. Police received a series of emails from people who saw an image of the shirt online.
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