Violence Results in 18 Soccer Fans Going to Prison
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YORK, England — Eighteen fans on Thursday were sent to prison and banned from going to football matches for two years for their part in violence at an English League game last year.
The men were given sentences ranging from 42 days to a year following the hooliganism which marred Scarborough’s first ever English League match, at home last August against Wolverhampton Wanderers.
Judge David Savill, at York Crown Court, said he was not making them scapegoats for recent violence at the European Championships in West Germany, but that they had terrified the crowd of 11,000. The 18 all pleaded guilty.
John Jenkinson, a 30-year-old who works as a security official at cricket matches, was sent to prison for six months for tearing up a flag, which other fans then burned.
Two 18-year-olds were sent to prison for respective periods of 3 months and 42 days, and 15 others were given sentences of between 4 months and a year.
