A person who racially abused Brentford striker Ivan Toney on social media has been banned from each stadium within the nation within the first banning order issued underneath the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act, the Premier League membership mentioned on Tuesday.
Toney, who has been racially abused a number of instances prior to now, shared a screenshot of the message he acquired on Instagram in October after he scored twice in a 2-0 win over Brighton.
Northumbria Police and the Metropolitan Police launched a full investigation to hint the suspect and in January the person, named Neill, pleaded responsible to sending an offensive message.
“Neill was handed a four-month sentence suspended for two years for the online offence as well as a three-year football banning order — the first of its kind to be issued under the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022,” Brentford mentioned in a press release.
“The legislation widened the scope for banning orders to be issued for online hate crimes relating to a person with a prescribed connection to a football organisation.
“The order forbids Neill from attending any regulated soccer match within the UK, which incorporates Premier League, Championship, League One, League Two and Nationwide League fixtures, in addition to England residence internationals.”
Neill can be banned from travelling overseas to look at worldwide friendlies, qualification matches and tournaments.
Brentford mentioned the membership hopes sentences for on-line abuse enhance and known as on social media corporations to take away all hateful content material to make their platforms protected for everybody.
Info from Related Press was included on this report.