Would The Recorder Have Taken A Similar View If This Had Been A Leftist Thug - If So, Well, Done! ( I Have My Doubts.)

Football hooligan from Portsmouth jailed for attacking Guardian columnist Owen Jones.

A football hooligan from Portsmouth has been jailed for nearly three years after attacking Guardian columnist Owen Jones.

James Healy, 40, admitted assaulting Mr Jones outside of a pub in August last year, but denied being motivated by Mr Jones' sexuality or political campaigning - claiming he did not know who he was.

After a two-day hearing to determine Healy's motive, Recorder Judge Anne Studd QC previously found the unprovoked attack could only be motivated by Mr Jones's media profile as a left-wing polemicist.

She added: ‘I therefore propose to sentence Mr Healy on the basis that this was a wholly unprovoked attack on Mr Jones by reason of his widely published left-wing and LGBTQ beliefs by a man who has demonstrable right-wing sympathies.’ The News.