" NINE LEEDS FANS TODAY SENT TO PRISON "

Brother of tragic Leeds fan is jailed over new soccer violence and 8 other Leeds fans sent to prison.


06th September 2013




A LEEDS United fan whose brother was stabbed to death before a game in Turkey has been jailed over football-related violence in Leeds city centre.

Andrew Loftus, 42, was sent to prison for 12 months today after a court heard he punched a Tottenham Hotspur fan unconscious during a clash between rival supporters.

CCTV footage played in court showed the injured man laying motionless in the road outside Yates’s Wine Lodge on Boar Lane after he was struck by Loftus.

The father-of-two was among nine men sent to prison yesterday over the incident which happened on January 27 this year after the Leeds United versus Spurs match at Elland Road.

Loftus’s brother, Christopher, was aged 35 when he and fellow Leeds fan Kevin Speight, 40, were fatally stabbed on the eve of Leeds’s Uefa Cup semi-final tie against Galatasaray on April 5, 2000.

Jailing the men, Judge Geoffrey Marson QC said: “What occurred on January 27 was mindless violence in the centre of this city in the early evening.

“It will not be tolerated and the message has to be understood that those who engage in conduct of this type will receive an immediate custodial sentence.”

Loftus’s barrister, Richard Wright QC, urged the judge to impose a suspended sentence upon his client.

He said Loftus, of Stoney Rock Grove, Burmantofts, stood to lose his well paid job as an IT worker in the financial sector if he was sent to prison. Mr Wright said Loftus had never dealt with the emotions of losing his brother until recently when he had been helped by a charity which deals with those who have lost loved ones to murder.

He added that Loftus had done an “enormous amount” of work for charity.

The eight other men jailed after pleading guilty to affray were: Mark Holman, 49, of Brayton Green Leeds, six months; Kevin Emmett, 41, of Halton Moor Avenue, Leeds, six months; Wayne Mallinson, 35, of Brook Close, Barnsley, six months; Dean Pressley, 47, of Miles Road, Sheffield, nine months; Craig Umpleby, 42, of, Woodfield Road, Harrogate, eight months; Joseph Morton, 21, Strawberry Avenue, Leeds, 13 months; Joseph Harman, 21 Cherrywood Gardens, Leeds, six months, and Mitchell Davis, 18, of Heights Way, Leeds, 15 months.

A lot of us have done stupid things. I've thrown a few punches and been hit by a few punches over the years but luckily for me no CCTV etc

I've been lucky but obviously some people haven't and it also depends on what's going around you and what's going on in your head.

Nowadays you can't do this type of thing without the old bill knocking your door.

One of those lads is from Harrogate. Wonder if its our friend, LeedsServiceCrew? He reckons that he lives there. Probably doesn't though!

mmmmm
obviously tricky getting stuck in with the jerk army from western oz even if it appealed
keyboard aggro much safer for you obviously

what's wrong with the beach/tennis court/sizzling bird

hilarious

I dont even know what that means. "Getting stuck in" - punching aomeone unconscious at football. Great fun for some I guess

I dont even know what that means.

oh come on agent dimwit don't even try to wriggle

and don't insult our fabled stand with your latest moniker

I dont even know what that means.

oh come on agent dimwit don't even try to wriggle

and don't insult our fabled stand with your latest moniker

Wriggle? I have no idea what you are waffling on about.

Are you suggesting im hiding the fact im roath magic? (not agent dimi, however, great misconception is that). Well suprise suprise you are wrong yet again, i never hide who i am if asked.

I was referring to tennis court, sizzling bird and beach... And then aggro on a keyboard, i have never been anything but polite. Clarify if you may?

I dont even know what that means. "Getting stuck in" - punching aomeone unconscious at football. Great fun for some I guess

Jerky, altered your original post I see, but to no end other than to create wriggle room.

Sad f**k you are that can't stay away from this mb with your ongoing bollocks.

I laughed when you were in so much obvious pain the night CCFC were promoted.
I laughed when all your bollocks about VT and CCFC going tits up was amply demonstrated to be the insidious propaganda of a bitter jerk who even your co-jerks say is a mental case
I laughed when CG got on your case

Get some help. You need it.

Night night!

I dont even know what that means. "Getting stuck in" - punching aomeone unconscious at football. Great fun for some I guess

Jerky, altered your original post I see, but to no end other than to create wriggle room.

Sad f**k you are that can't stay away from this mb with your ongoing bollocks.

I laughed when you were in so much obvious pain the night CCFC were promoted.
I laughed when all your bollocks about VT and CCFC going tits up was amply demonstrated to be the insidious propaganda of a bitter jerk who even your co-jerks say is a mental case
I laughed when CG got on your case

Get some help. You need it.

Night night!

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footage of the incident

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1L1yGNv ... e=youtu.be

He said Loftus, of Stoney Rock Grove, Burmantofts, stood to lose his well paid job as an IT worker in the financial sector if he was sent to prison. Mr Wright said Loftus had never dealt with the emotions of losing his brother until recently when he had been helped by a charity which deals with those who have lost loved ones to murder.

What an absolute load of bollocks

You would think that someone who had lost a brother to football violence would have known better

The Video that sent the 9 Leeds fans to prison.
Leeds/Spurs
link
http://search.yahoo.com/search?ei=utf-8 ... gans+utube