Aberdeen man banned from football games after insulting disabled Celtic fan
An Aberdeen man has been banned from football games for tweeting abuse about disabled 11-year-old Celtic fan.
An Aberdeen man has been banned from football games after insulting a disabled 11-year-old football fan online.
20-year-old Ross Gibson abused the fan on Twitter following the Aberdeen v Celtic game on March 1, last year.
The young fan, who has Down's Syndrome, won the Scottish Professional Football League Goal of the Month for January and had been presented with the award at halftime.
Gibson was forced to shut down his account a few hours after the offence because his tweets caused outrage across the country.
He was later charged and admitted acting in a threatening and abusive manner by sending sectarian messages online when he appeared in court in November.
The offence was aggravated by prejudice of religion and disability.
Today the AFC fan escaped jail when he was sentenced at Aberdeen Sheriff Court and was ordered to carry out a community payback order.