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Antonio Neill sent a racist message to Ivan Toney on his Instagram account after the striker scored 2 goals in Brentford vs Brighton in a Premier League match on October 14.
Police started an investigation after Ivan Toney shared a picture of the abuse and the message was traced to the 24-year-old Neill, who lives in Blyth, a town in northern England.
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“I’m pleased that racial abuse ends in court. I think the sentence could be harder but it’s a good step in the right direction to show there’s no room for racism. Hopefully it’s a reminder to social media companies they can do more”#SOUBRE pic.twitter.com/5hS5dEFgfd
— Brentford FC (@BrentfordFC) March 14, 2023
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Neill appeared in a magistrates’ court in Newcastle on Jan. 25 and pleaded guilty to sending an offensive message.
On Monday, he was handed a four-month sentence suspended for two years as well as a three-year soccer banning order, the first to be issued under a government act which became law in 2022. That widened the scope for banning orders to be issued for online hate crimes relating to a person with a connection to a soccer organization.
“If you are going to choose to be vile and abusive to others, doing it from behind a computer screen or on your phone doesn’t mean you’ll get away with it. Far from it,” Northumbria police and crime commissioner Kim McGuinness said in a statement released Tuesday.
The order forbids Neill from attending any regulated soccer match in Britain and also prevents him from traveling abroad to watch international friendlies, qualification matches and tournaments.
Brentford said the club hopes sentences for online abuse increase and called on social media companies to remove all hateful content to make their platforms safe for everyone.
