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Offensive Hillsborough T-shirt wearer Paul Grange fined Paul Grange: Offensive Hillsborough T-shirt was 'banter'
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A man who wore an offensive T-shirt relating to the Hillsborough disaster said he has lost everything and "deserved it". A man who wore an offensive T-shirt relating to the Hillsborough disaster said it was 'banter' with Liverpool-supporting friends.
Paul Grange, 50, was arrested on 30 May and charged with "displaying abusive writing... likely to cause distress". Paul Grange, 50, of Worcester, admitted a public order offence and was fined £600 by city magistrates earlier.
The previous day, the Worcester man was asked to leave the Brewers Arms pub in the St Johns area of the city for wearing the T-shirt. He said he had deservedly "lost everything" after wearing the T-shirt in a pub beer garden on 29 May.
He admitted a public order offence and was fined by Worcester magistrates. The wording on the shirt suggested the disaster was "God's way" of helping a pest control company.
The wording on the T-shirt suggested the disaster was "God's way" of helping a pest control company. Magistrates heard Grange ordered the T-shirt from a printing firm.
When he wore it at the Brewers Arms pub in the St Johns area of Worcester, he was asked to leave by the landlord and arrested the following day.
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A statement by Louise Brookes, who lost her brother Andrew at the Hillsborough disaster, said it caused her hurt, anxiety and sleepless nights.
"For 27 years, I have had to listen to and read of such hatred directed towards my family," she added.
Representing himself in court, Grange responded: "Hearing that statement, it's hit home, the personal effect of it.
"It (the T-shirt) was only supposed to be between friends."
Remorse
He expressed remorse adding: "Because of my own actions, I have lost my home, my job, my friends, my family and relationship.
"And it's deserved - I don't think it's any less than I deserve."
Grange pleaded guilty to "displaying threatening/abusive writing/sign/visible representation likely to cause harassment/alarm/distress".Grange pleaded guilty to "displaying threatening/abusive writing/sign/visible representation likely to cause harassment/alarm/distress".
The 50-year-old, of Columbia Drive, Worcester, was fined £795 including costs. In addition to a £600 fine, the 50-year-old, of Columbia Drive, Worcester, was ordered to pay a £60 victim surcharge and £135 in costs.
Outside court he said he had lost his "home, job, friends and family," adding he "deserved it".
Ninety-six football fans died as a result of a crush at Hillsborough stadium on 15 April 1989 at the start of the FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest.
In April, an inquest concluded 96 fans were unlawfully killed.