Celtic fan banned for sectarian offence at St Johnstone match

A Celtic supporter has been banned from attending football matches, after being filmed singing a sectarian song with a group of fans who ran amok at a televised league match.

Lewis Connor, 18, was made subject to a six-month football banning order, after a court heard he was a known figure in a group of fans called the Style Mile Vandals.

The court heard the group of 25 fans linked to the Green Brigade threw flares and smoke bombs and pelted a police car with cans while their team was playing St Johnstone in the SPFL.

Connor, of Atholl Crescent, Paisley, admitted singing sectarian songs at St Johnstone’s ground, McDiarmid Park in Perth, on May 15.

Solicitor Kevin McCarron, defending, said that CCTV footage showed that scaffolder Connor’s involvement lasted for just 13 seconds.

He said: “There’s no excuse for it. The Style Mile Vandals were a group of young men aged between 14 and 20. They no longer exist. He was clearly identified on CCTV. It was an error of judgment on his part.”