OXFORD: In Wednesday’s report of the trouble at the Oxford United/Bristol Rovers match, we omitted to report the denial of Christopher Taylor’s solicitor to a prosecution allegation that he was the instigator.
Taylor, of Allnatt Avenue, Wallingford, admitted causing intentional harassment, alarm or distress and it was said by Clare Barclay the prosecutor that he was the instigator.
However we should have reported that Charlie Moss, defending, said this was not true.
She said: “I think it would be hard to say there was any one individual or any one ringleader.
“He accepted he was at the front but then somebody always has to be at the front and that is just the way it worked out.”
We apologise to the 47-year-old defendant for not reporting this denial.
All six defendants who appeared on Tuesday were sentenced to a three-month curfew, given a three-year football banning order, and ordered to pay a £60 victims’ surcharge and £85 costs.
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