A defendant has been given a red card over attending football matches after he admitted violent disorder in Nottingham city centre. Violence flared ahead of Nottingham Forest's 4-1 FA Cup victory over Leicester City on February 6 and Craig Jones, aged 23, of Arden Avenue, Leicester, appeared before Nottingham Crown Court on Friday, May 6, and entered a guilty plea.
His strict bail conditions now include a ban from attending any town or city on the day Leicester City are playing, not to go to Nottinghamshire - except to attend court - and not to associate with his co-defendants and to live at his address. He was granted bail with a copy of the order until sentencing with his co-accused on July 22.
The court heard he has a previous conviction for violent disorder in September 2018 which Jones told the court was a group in town and, "a bit of an altercation with a doorman in Leicester" and not football-related. He went to custody for 22 months for that offence.
