Simon Silwood given eight weeks for ‘grossly offensive’ messages aimed at West Bromwich Albion player
A professional footballer has urged his fellow players to report the abuse hurled at them to
police as one of his own club’s supporters was jailed for eight weeks for racially abusing him.
West Brom’s Romaine Sawyers spoke as 50-year-old Simon Silwood was sentenced on Thursday, having earlier been found guilty of what prosecutors called a “grossly offensive racial hate crime”. Silwood posted several messages on
Social Media targeting Sawyers because he is black.