A Roma supporter lashed out at a Liverpool fan as he fell to the ground during a joint attack ahead of a Champions League semi-final, a court has heard.Filippo Lombardi, 21, is accused of inflicting grievous bodily harm on Sean Cox, 53, outside Anfield before the first leg of the game on April 24 .Opening the trial at Preston Crown Court on Thursday, Neville Biddle, prosecuting, said: “Before the match, a Liverpool supporter Sean Cox, a middle-aged family man from Dublin, who was a lifelong Liverpool supporter and who had come to Liverpool with his older brother Martin, was assaulted and knocked unconscious and seriously injured.”
He added: “It’s the Crown’s case that two men were involved in the assault on Sean Cox – this defendant and another.
“It was the other man that struck the blow that felled Sean Cox and rendered him unconscious.
“The Crown say this was a joint attack by the other man and the defendant, they we
A Roma supporter lashed out at a Liverpool fan as he fell to the ground during a joint attack ahead of a Champions League semi-final, a court has heard.Filippo Lombardi, 21, is accused of inflicting grievous bodily harm on Sean Cox, 53, outside Anfield before the first leg of the game on April 24 .Opening the trial at Preston Crown Court on Thursday, Neville Biddle, prosecuting, said: “Before the match, a Liverpool supporter Sean Cox, a middle-aged family man from Dublin, who was a lifelong Liverpool supporter and who had come to Liverpool with his older brother Martin, was assaulted and knocked unconscious and seriously injured.”
He added: “It’s the Crown’s case that two men were involved in the assault on Sean Cox – this defendant and another.
“It was the other man that struck the blow that felled Sean Cox and rendered him unconscious.
“The Crown say this was a joint attack by the other man and the defendant, they we
A Roma supporter lashed out at a Liverpool fan as he fell to the ground during a joint attack ahead of a Champions League semi-final, a court has heard.Filippo Lombardi, 21, is accused of inflicting grievous bodily harm on Sean Cox, 53, outside Anfield before the first leg of the game on April 24 .Opening the trial at Preston Crown Court on Thursday, Neville Biddle, prosecuting, said: “Before the match, a Liverpool supporter Sean Cox, a middle-aged family man from Dublin, who was a lifelong Liverpool supporter and who had come to Liverpool with his older brother Martin, was assaulted and knocked unconscious and seriously injured.”
He added: “It’s the Crown’s case that two men were involved in the assault on Sean Cox – this defendant and another.
“It was the other man that struck the blow that felled Sean Cox and rendered him unconscious.
“The Crown say this was a joint attack by the other man and the defendant, they we
