Six English football fans jailed

SIX England fans including a nurse and a trainee engineer were jailed in France yesterday for drunken violence at Euro 2016.

The hooligans hurled bottles at riot police as trouble flared before Saturday’s match against Russia, prosecutors alleged.

A 16-year-old also arrested after throwing a bottle at police had already been handed over to French social services and banned from attending any other games.

Meanwhile, West Midlands Police arrested a man who had returned to Britain after allegedly identifying him from footage of the clashes in Marseille.

Daniel Warlow, 24, from Tipton, will appear before Birmingham magistrates accused of being involved in disorder on Friday at the UEFA European Championship.

At a court in Marseille yesterday, 26-yearold construction worker Ashley Kelly, from Birmingham, who threw seven bottles in the stadium during Saturday’s match, was jailed for three months.

Psychiatric nurse Ian Hepworth, 41, from Sheffield, was also jailed for three months for throwing two bottles at police. Hepworth told the court: ‘My job is to help people. I did something stupid. I wanted to impress my new French friends.’

Chef Alex Booth, 20, and Steven Cornell, 28, both from Huddersfield, were each jailed for two months.

Booth had earlier pleaded with the judge to spare him jail, saying: ‘I would like to say sorry to the police and the people and city of Marseille.

‘I’m not a violent person. I’m hard-working and have never had anything to do with football hooliganism.’

Meanwhile, engineer Paul Jackson, 21, from Halifax and Lee Phillips, 23, from Taunton, were both jailed for one month.