QPR football hooligans have been jailed

Shocking CCTV shows the moment QPR football hooligans attacked rival fans outside west London bar

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Attack: the QPR fans smashed the window of the Hammersmith pub
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Gareth Vipers
Published: 17 April 2015
Updated: 18:06, 17 April 2015
QPR football hooligans have been jailed for their part in violence that saw rival fans attacked outside a west London pub.
Police today released shocking CCTV footage of the incident which shows fans smashing the windows of the Plough and Harrow pub in Hammersmith before a major street brawl.
The incident occurred after QPR’s Championship match against Burnley FC on February 1 2014.
Today four men were jailed for their part in the disorder at Isleworth Crown Court.
The court heard how Harry Childs, 18, Jack Hutchins, 21, Dean Foreman, 27, and Bradley Pack, 22, gathered outside the Plough and Harrow Public House shortly before 17:00hrs, where a number of Burnley supporters were having a post-match drink.
Whilst outside the venue, the group confronted Burnley supporters through the windows. Moments after the shouting escalated to violence and the pub's window being kicked and shattered by Childs. A number of people were then assaulted and punched outside the pub.


In fear of the violence spreading into the premises, the pub manager locked the glass front doors and called 999.
The CCTV then shows the group making their way up Kings Street and fighting another group of Burnley fans.
Speaking after today's sentencing, Chief Inspector Simon Causer said: "This kind of behaviour is entirely unacceptable to the police, the thousands of law-abiding and genuine football fans, the clubs and the general public. Our hope is that, in light of these convictions and sentences, perpetrators will think very carefully about the consequences of their actions before carrying out football violence.”

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Brawl: one of the men can be seen fighting with rival fans in the steet A spokesperson for QPR, said: “The vast majority of QPR fans are excellent ambassadors and passionate supporters. However the club takes a zero tolerance position to violence in or around the stadium and will continue to fully cooperate with the police in these rare instances.”
Football violence in the capital has dropped in recent years, despite a number of recent high-profile incidents at train stations.
British Transport Police (BTP) chief constable Paul Crowther today suggested that football hooligans were terrorising train passengers with “casual thuggery” every week.
Figures released by BTP show there has been 630 soccer-related incidents on the UK transport network for this football season so far, including a number with a racial element.

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Jailed: (clockwise from top left) Bradley Pack, Dean Foreman, Harry Childs and Jack Hutchins PC Paul Todd, from the Met's Central Football Unit, said: "Football violence has reduced over the years but there are still a minority that insist on putting people at risk by fighting in busy streets near members of public. People arrested for football violence do not only get a criminal record but can also receive an order preventing them from attending football matches in the future."
Harry Childs, 18 of Billericay, was sentenced to eight months imprisonment; Jack Hutchins, 21 of Kings Langley, was sentenced to one year’s imprisonment; Dean Foreman, 27 of Northolt, was sentenced to one year’s imprisonment; Bradley Pack, 22 of Hemel Hempstead, was sentenced to 30 weeks imprisonment.

All four men also received six-year Football Banning Orders under section 23 of the Football Spectators Act 1989.

 

Idiots the lot of them. Ashamed they have any connection to our club. I'm all for HEALTHY rivalry but no excuse for this kind of behaviour.

 

Well done lads - you have shamed yourselves and more importantly you have shamed our club - we don't need 'fans' like you - time to grow up.

*slow handclap*

 

Looking at their mugshots they would struggle to achieve a collective IQ of 70.

 

Don't be generous Stan!

 

be surprised if between them they could count that high

 

They have enough fingers and toes between them but still couldn't work it out.

 

mug shots look like they are members of OneDirection

 

Well they are only going in one direction......... straight to Parkhurst.

 

Feel a bit sorry for them. Movie's like green street and football factory make it seem trendy.

Young men, make silly decisions and can get drawn in to this culture.

Also judging from where it happened it seems clear it was arranged so Burnley fans aren't innocent. Not as if they were at Shepherds Bush Green

 

Agree in the 80's thugs used to beat cr@p out of each other and nothing was done. Now these idiots run at each other, smash a window and get put in jail? Silly boys.

 

At the end of the day we are all responsible for our actions. Their actions have sullied the name of our club and I personally hope they serve the time they get.

 

This is true

 

Morons to a man! I hope they like playing Hide The Sausage!!

 

Complete morons, I can't even call them QPR fans as they are NOT.

Hope they suffer in solitude whilst inside.

 

Parkhurst? Sounds like about the right place for them

 

I remember drinking in the Conny with some Burnley fans before that 3-3 game. Absolutely brilliant lads the lot of them. Disgusted that some of our "fans" shamed the rest of us.