A troll who racially abused former Newcastle United footballer Ivan Toney has been spared prison for attacking his mum's partner with a bottle.
Antonio Neill, who is awating sentence for sending an offensive tweet to the Brentford striker, said he attacked the man after he had been abusive and violent to him and his mum. A court heard when Neill intervened in a dispute between his mum and the man in December 2021, he claimed he was put in a choke hold.
He ended up hitting the man with a bottle then using it on him after it broke, leaving him with deeps cuts and bleeding heavily. The victim did not cooperate with the prosecution and after hearing the background to the offence, a judge suspended Neill's prison sentence.
