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Football hooligan Met detective gets banning order

A Metropolitan Police detective who threw a flare into a crowd and chanted about a fatal helicopter crash has been given a three-year football banning order.

Arsenal fan Gordon Irikefe was barred from all UK football matches following a hearing on Monday at Westminster Magistrates' Court, the force said.

Last week, a police disciplinary hearing found he had breached the Met's standards of professional behaviour.

Det Con Irikefe, who resigned from the force on 12 February before being dismissed without notice, was found to have committed gross misconduct in acts of football hooliganism at Arsenal games between October 2022 and April 2024.