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PNE fan banned from football matches until 2013
A Preston North End fan who got into a row with a Newcastle United supporter following a match has been banned from football games for three years.
Kieran James Dunne, 32, of Sylvancroft, Ingol, Preston, was slapped with a three-year football banning order after he pleaded guilty to using threatening behaviour.
It stemmed from an incident on November 23 when Dunne got into a fracas with a Newcastle fan close to the Greyfriars pub on Ringway, following the PNE v Newcastle match at Deepdale.
Magistrates sentenced him to a community order to carry out 200 hours unpaid work and pay 85 costs.
But police in the city successfully applied for a banning order in addition to the punishment.
A spokesman from Preston's police intelligence unit said: "We are very happy with the decision and will take action against other individuals who cause trouble."
Dunne is banned from every football match and must surrender his passport to officers before international fixtures.
He must not enter a designated area in the city centre three hours before and four hours after a PNE match.
It is understood police want to increase the number of banning orders on troublemakers this year in the run-up to the World Cup.
Police can apply for two types of order. One is after a criminal conviction while the other is a civil application based on intelligence police have gathered against troublemakers.
In 2009 three Preston football hooligans detained by police at a right-wing march, when they should have been signing in at a Preston police station, were punished for breaching their five-year banning orders.
Stewart Roderick Baker, Lewis Noel Dickinson and Matthew David Cartwright should have attended the station on Saturday October 10 as England played Ukraine but instead they were among marchers at an English Defence League rally in Piccadilly Gardens, Manchester.
Magistrates handed each a 12-month conditional discharge and told them to pay 50 costs at 5 a week.
Baker, a part-time Subway worker of Sharoe Green Lane, Preston; Dickinson, a shop assistant of Whitmore Place, Ribbleton; and Cartwright, an apprentice joiner, of Gamull Lane, Ribbleton, all admitted breaching the orders which were imposed in October 2008.
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