{"id":902821,"date":"2026-11-02T03:38:18","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T03:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/902821\/"},"modified":"2026-11-02T03:38:18","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T03:38:18","slug":"boy-hands-himself-into-police-after-bradley-lowery-taunt-in-sunderland-match-sunderland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/902821\/","title":{"rendered":"Boy hands himself into police after Bradley Lowery taunt in Sunderland match | Sunderland"},"content":{"rendered":"

A 14-year-old boy has \u201chanded himself in\u201d to West Midlands police after a video posted on social media appeared to show a Coventry fan taunting Sunderland with a photo of Bradley Lowery during the Premier League match on Saturday<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Sunderland fan Bradley captured the hearts of the football world when he was diagnosed with neuroblastoma, a rare form of childhood cancer. He died aged six in 2017.<\/p>\n

Coventry said on Sunday that they were investigating the video footage and Bradley\u2019s mother, Gemma, issued an emotional statement through the Bradley Lowery Foundation, which raises funds and awareness to help and support children.<\/p>\n

West Midlands police said: \u201cWe are aware of a video circulating on social media showing an incident at Coventry City\u2019s Premier League match with Sunderland [on Saturday] afternoon.<\/p>\n

\u201cA thorough investigation has been launched, and a 14-year-old boy has since handed himself in and will be spoken with in due course. We understand the upset and outrage this video has caused in the community and to the victim\u2019s family and our officers are keeping them up to date with the progress of our investigation and working closely alongside both football clubs.\u201d<\/p>\n

Coventry said in their earlier statement: \u201cCoventry City FC is aware of footage circulating on social media in connection with an incident during our Premier League fixture against Sunderland. The club does not tolerate offensive behaviour and will liaise with the relevant authorities to determine the appropriate course of action.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gemma Lowery said her \u201cbeautiful boy deserves to be remembered with love, not hate\u201d in her statement. She posted on Instagram: \u201cYesterday, a Coventry fan used a photograph of Bradley to taunt Sunderland supporters. As Bradley\u2019s mam, this is heartbreaking, especially as it\u2019s one of my favourite photographs of him. Just look at that smile.<\/p>\n

\u201cI remember that day like it was yesterday. He was so happy, having so much fun. Those moments were precious because they were few and far between.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo much of Bradley\u2019s short life was spent battling cancer and enduring treatments no child should ever face. To see such a beautiful memory used in such a cruel way really does make my heart hurt.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe are a football-loving family who follow Sunderland home and away. I\u2019m all for football banter, but surely mocking a child who died from cancer is not banter?\u201d<\/p>\n

Lowery added: \u201cI hope the club takes appropriate action and the young lad\u2019s family help him understand how hurtful his actions were. I don\u2019t want hatred directed towards him, so please please don\u2019t, just for him to learn from this.<\/p>\n

\u201cBehind that photograph is a little boy who was loved beyond measure and a family who miss him every day. Thank you to everyone who has defended Bradley and shown us so much love. It means more than you know.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 14-year-old boy has \u201chanded himself in\u201d to West Midlands police after a video posted on social media…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":902822,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-902821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=902821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/902822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=902821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=902821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=902821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}