Football fan who mocked cancer victim Bradley Lowery banned for five years
Dale Houghton held up a picture of Sunderland mascot Bradley Lowery during Wednesday's 3-0 defeat in September
A football fan who mocked cancer victim Bradley Lowery during Sheffield Wednesday's defeat to Sunderland in September has been given a suspended jail sentence.
Dale Houghton, 32, held up a picture of Bradley, who died in 2017, on his phone during the match at Hillsborough.
Houghton, from Rotherham, admitted a public order offence at a previous hearing and, on Friday, he was given a 12-week prison sentence, suspended for 18 months, and was ordered to do 200 hours unpaid work by District Judge Marcus Waite.
Mr Waite said: "You showed callous disrespect to a brave young man who was righty held in the highest esteem by football fans everywhere."