Judge says former Premier League referee had ‘spectacular fall from grace’published at 11:15 GMT<\/p>\n
11:15 GMT<\/p>\n
Addressing Coote ahead of sentencing him, Judge Nirmal Shant said: “David
\nCoote, you have had a spectacular fall from grace.”<\/p>\n
She told him the starting point for such an offence is one year imprisonment, with the range between 26 weeks and three years. <\/p>\n
Judge Shant added: “You came to the attention of police following an
\ninvestigation into your conduct while being employed as a professional referee.<\/p>\n
“You had been filmed making comments [about] the then
\nLiverpool Football Club manager. The present allegations are unrelated to that but they
\ndid lead to the police coming to your home in February last year.<\/p>\n
“They found a laptop and a hard drive [which had] been connected to
\nthe laptop on 2 January. <\/p>\n
“At the time you told police they would find cocaine that
\nyou had for your personal use – you have been cautioned for that.<\/p>\n
“Those who commit this sort of offence must realise they involve a real child and that causes them damage.” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Judge says former Premier League referee had ‘spectacular fall from grace’published at 11:15 GMT 11:15 GMT Addressing Coote…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106550,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-234225","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}