Everton fan jailed and banned from matches for racially abusing fellow supporter | C21DTVQ | 2024-03-03 11:08:01
A soccer fan with a history of racist trolling has been jailed for 15 weeks after racially abusing a fellow Everton supporter on-line.
Shaun Tuck, 37, from Liverpool, posted a collection of racially charged taunts within the feedback section of Everton FC's official Fb page in August last yr.
A courtroom heard he flew off the handle after seeing posts by a Liverpool FC fan about Everton's probability of being relegated out of the Premier League.
Police stated some of his responses included 'racist abuse a few fellow Everton supporter'.
They included calling somebody 'Package-Kat toes' as well as references to 'your tribe', dwelling in a 'mud swamp' and recommendations they have 'yet to see a home, clear water, scorching food, meals without flies'.
In one comment, he wrote: 'And I've tweeted Bob Geldof to by no means ever do another concert for you!'
Tuck, who beforehand performed semi-professionally for various lower league sides, was beforehand jailed for 12 weeks in 2013 after calling on Twitter for British mosques to be 'gassed out or bombed' in the wake of soldier Lee Rigby's murder.
The following yr he was handed a suspended sentence for calling a black man an 'orangutan' and writing 'I hope his households banana boat sinks' in another on-line rant.
A courtroom heard Tuck began posting his newest feedback 5 hours into a beer and vodka-fuelled bender with associates, and continued commenting for two hours.
After his arrest he admitted the posts got here from his Facebook account but claimed another person had written them.
Angela Conlan, prosecuting, stated: 'He says that he had been in a gaggle of lads and women they usually should have completed it whilst he had gone to the toilet.'
Ms Conlan added: 'In the course of the interview when asked about one of many statements, "All one of the best on the 175 mile walk to the mud swamp for a drink", he stated: "That may not have been offensive to me. It's common information that they need to walk that far."
'When asked how he knew that, he stated he didn't.'
The courtroom heard Tuck was indeed liable for the posts made out of his telephone.
Asked concerning the posts which sparked his anger, Tuck stated: 'Everton Soccer Club is the very first thing I ever liked in my life. I spent half of my faculty life arguing with individuals who say "Everton are sh*te".
'I'm very defensive about Everton. However typically I hate them as a lot as Liverpool followers due to the misery they put me by means of.'
Sentencing, Decide Timothy Boswell stated there was 'no excuse' for Tuck's feedback, telling him: 'You needed to sort that out and push the button to submit it. It isn't something that has just come out of your mouth in a cut up second.
'It is something that you've taken the time to sort and then to publish.'
As well as a prison sentence, Tuck was additionally banned from all football matches for the subsequent six years.
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