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Liam Stacey today admitted to tweeting sick comments about Bolton Wanderers midfielder, Fabrice Muamba, who is in intensive care after collapsing during an FA Cup clash at White Hart Lane.
The 21-year-old wrote: “LOL [Laugh out loud] **** Muamba. He’s dead!!! #haha.” and pleaded guilty to psoting racial comments on the social network. Stacey has been told he faces jail term when he gets sentenced next week. He was also told he must stay off social networking websites as a condition of being released on bail.
“Fabrice Muamba collapsed on the pitch and was believed to have died. “Shortly after Stacey posted on Twitter: ‘LOL, F*** Muamba. He’s dead.” Prosecutor Lisa Jones told Swansea Magistrates’ Court. Stacey also went on to fire back at other tweeters who took offence to his update.
He the tried to exempt himself from the tweets by claiming his account was hacked. He also tried to delete his page but he got arrested on Sunday morning at his student home in Swansea, South Wales. Stacey told the police that he was drunk at the time. “I was at the bar when I heard what had happened to Muamba. I don’t know why I posted it. I’m not racist and some of my friends are from different cultural backgrounds,” he said.
Stacey is a Biology undergraduate and is originally from Pontypridd, South Wales. He was close to tears as the evidence was given about his tweets. Moments after he sent out the tweets, he sent an sms to a friend saying, “I said something about Muamba that I shouldn’t have and tweeted back to some people who abused me. Getting police on me now which isn’t good at all.”
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