A 30-year-old Italian man has pleaded guilty to assaulting Irish man Sean Cox outside Anfield stadium ahead of a Champions League tie between Liverpool FC and AS Roma last April
A 30-year-old Italian man has pleaded guilty to assaulting Irish man Sean Cox outside Anfield stadium ahead of a Champions League tie between Liverpool FC and AS Roma last April.
Simone Mastrelli, from Rome, had been extradited to the UK after being arrested on a European Arrest Warrant in Italy in connection with the assault outside Anfield on 24 April 2018 Mr Cox, a 53-year-old father-of-three from Dunboyne in Co Meath, suffered catastrophic head injuries in the attack.He spent four-and-a-half weeks at the Walton Centre in Liverpool, a specialist neurological unit for brain injuries, following the attack, before being airlifted to another specialist unit at Dublin's Beaumont Hospital.
Mastrell entered a guilty plea at Preston Crown Court to unlawfully and maliciously inflicting grievous bodily harm on Mr Cox. He pleaded not guilty to a separate count of violent disorder, also on 24 April, which will lie on file after the Crown accepted the plea.
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