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Fans sentenced for chants and videos mocking tragedies

Two men who directed hateful chanting and videos at Liverpool supporters before the team faced Manchester United have been given football banning orders.

Harry Thorley, of Crewe, Cheshire, was spotted chanting about the Heysel stadium disaster by police outside the away turnstiles at Old Trafford 45 minutes before a game on 1 September.

Tommy Jobling, of Whitby, North Yorkshire, admitted distributing offensive videos and other messages about the Hillsborough disaster to a Liverpool fan via WhatsApp when the teams played in March.

Thorley, 19, and Jobling, 22, were each handed a three-year stadium ban at Manchester Magistrates' Court.