Man arrested after online comments about fan death
Mark Townsend died during a match between Sheffield Wednesday and West Bromwich Albion [West Bromwich Albion]
A social media user has been arrested after messages apparently mocking the death of a man at a Sheffield Wednesday game were shared online.
West Brom supporter Mark Townsend died from a medical episode during the match on Saturday, in a stand where 97 football fans died during the Hillsborough disaster in 1989.
A social media account, which has since been deleted, was alleged to have said Mr Townsend’s death was “another one to add to the Leppings lane tally. Up the owls”.
A man, aged 55, had been arrested on suspicion of malicious communications and remained in police custody, South Yorkshire Police confirmed.
“It is alleged that malicious communications were shared following the death of a man during a football match on Saturday 28 September,” a spokesperson for the force said.
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