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At Hamilton Sheriff Court today, Kevin Regan (DOB 31/07/1982) was fined £500 and had a 9 month Football Banning Order imposed for an incident at a Premier League match on 29 September 2012 at Fir Park Stadium in Motherwell.

 

During the game between Motherwell and Celtic, Regan, from Glasgow, was observed chanting and singing offensive songs in support of a proscribed terrorist organisation.

 

Regan was convicted on 26 February 2014 of a contravention of Section 1(1) of the Offensive Behaviour at Football and Threatening Communications (Scotland) Act 2012.

 

Speaking following today’s hearing Stephen Ferguson, Football Liaison Prosecutor for the West of Scotland, said:

 

“We will not tolerate individuals or groups using football matches as a platform to show support for proscribed terrorist organisations.

 

“Families and all genuine supporters should be able to attend games and enjoy the spectacle and atmosphere without being subjected to such behaviour.

 

“COPFS will continue to adopt a zero-tolerance approach to football related disorder of any kind and will continue to bring those who perpetrate such crimes to justice.”

 

http://www.copfs.gov.uk/media-site/media-releases/710-man-sentenced-for-offensive-chants-and-singing

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The OBA has been ridiculed in many quarters and a lot of the criticism about the drafting has been etirely valid; but this is a good example of it being used successfully for the purpose for which it was intended.

 

Hopefully the police and the procurator will attract some praise for their actions.

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Because the Police simply don't have sufficient resources.

 

Lack of resources or lack of will to take on the club that counts so many of Scotland's political class among its supporters?

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Lack of resources or lack of will to take on the club that counts so many of Scotland's political class among its supporters?

 

I know from discussion on the JRG that this is a very real problem for the Police. If a group of say 6,12, 20 officers try to arrest a large number of folk in a crowd then a riot will ensue and the police will lose the battle. That's also why police and stewards can do nothing about people standing up when they should be sitting down.

 

What they do is (a) arrest a conspicuous offender and (b) later use the cameras to try to identify and arrest the people concerned away from the match.

 

It might not satisfy a lot of people but that really is as much as they can do unless they don riot gear or bring in the army as they do in some other countries.

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