A 24-year-old man has been given a three-year stadium ban in any respect stadiums within the UK for racially abusing Brentford striker Ivan Toney.
Antonio Neill, who despatched the racist message to Toney on social media on October 14 final yr, was additionally given a four-month sentence suspended for 2 years.
Toney shared the abuse he acquired on his Instagram, sparking a police investigation which discovered the suspect in Blyth.
Neill pleaded responsible to sending an offensive message to Newcastle Magistrates’ Court docket in January earlier than being sentenced on Monday.
Brentford and Northumberland Police describe it as a ‘historic resolution’ as it’s ‘the primary of its variety to be made beneath the Policing, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022’.
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