Nine Norwich City Fans Jailed for Rampage

Nine Norwich City supporters began their jail terms today, after they went on a destructive rampage in a city centre following their side’s heavy defeat.

The yobs, along with three other City supporters who were not sentenced to jail, threw chairs, concrete blocks, bricks and various other projectiles at opposition fans after their club’s 4-0 away loss to Leicester on 16 th February last year.

Yesterday, at Leicester Crown Court, the instigators of this rampage were jailed for five years and three months after one judge said that it was “pure chance no one was hurt.”

The three other City supporters had their sentences suspended and were ordered to do community work, while two others were also jailed for the role they played in the trouble.

Every one of the defendants were also banned from football for six years, for their part in what was probably the worst incidence of violence involving fans of Norwich for many years.

The court was told that the trouble began when a group of Norwich supporters left the game, at the Walkers Stadium, early and began walking to the city centre, heading towards an area where a group of Leicester supporters had congregated. The court was shown CCTV footage taken a few minutes past 5pm in High Street and Loseby Land in Leicester, in which the two groups of supporters were seen throwing chairs, concrete blocks, bricks and missiles at one another. A single brick landed at the feet of a very young girl, who was standing close by, but thankfully nobody was hurt in the melee. CCTV footage can be stored on solid state drives, look at ssd performance.

At an earlier hearing, ten of the Norwich fans had pleaded guilty to affray and the three others had pleaded guilty to the less serious charge of threatening behaviour.