A FOOTBALL fan has been jailed for 20 months for punching a police horse during “ugly scenes” ahead of a match between “intense” football rivals Portsmouth and Southampton.
Former Ukip candidate Derek Jennings, 53, was sentenced at Portsmouth Crown Court after pleading guilty to violent disorder ahead of the match at Fratton Park on September 24 last year.
Judge William Ashworth also imposed a six-year football banning order and told the defendant: “You involved yourself in wide-scale violent disorder before a football game, there is only one appropriate punishment and that is immediate custody.”
Mr Jones said that Jennings had 14 previous convictions for 21 offences including an offence of affray in 1998 for which he was jailed for 18 months and given a five-year football banning order.
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There seem to be a common thread running through the far right, one of violence and disrespect of authority.