Marlon King Sent down for 18 Months

[Chazza]

Footballer jailed for sex assault
Marlon King

Footballer Marlon King has been jailed for 18 months for sexually assaulting a woman - and has been sacked by Premier League club Wigan Athletic as a result.

The striker was repeatedly "cold-shouldered" by the 20-year-old student in a bar in central London last December, Southwark Crown Court heard.

He groped her and then punched her, leaving her with a broken nose.

The father-of-three, from Waltham Cross, Hertfordshire, had insisted it was a case of mistaken identity.

The jury returned a unanimous verdict, however, and King was convicted of sexually assaulting the woman and causing actual bodily harm.

The assault happened at the Soho Revue Bar at a time when he was on loan with Hull City.

King was celebrating two occasions - his wife's latest pregnancy and the scoring of a winning goal - with a night out in the West End.

He was repeatedly "cold-shouldered" by women in the bar, the court heard.

'Gratuitous violence'

Prosecution lawyer Roger Daniells-Smith said King had struck up a conversation with his victim by saying: "Don't you know who I am? I'm a millionaire."

The court heard she replied: "I don't care who you are; take your millionaire self away from our table."

He groped the woman and she told him: "Don't do that, it's not nice. Don't touch me."

King was warned off her again but he continued to stroke the woman's hair and then told her she was not in his league, the court heard.

After she pushed him in the chest, King lost his temper and a moment of "completely gratuitous violence" led to him "smashing" the victim to the floor, jurors were told.

Two other people standing beside him were also knocked away as a result of the force of the blow he inflicted.

Several witnesses testified that King was responsible, despite his denial.

They included a football coach who insisted the 29-year-old Jamaican international was the assailant.

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Also been Sacked by Wigan according to BBC radio

[PTP]

read about this in the paper - what a tit!

[Assassin]

Good, the cunt is getting what he deserves

I hope he gets arsehole ripped to shreds while he is banged up!

[dom9]

He got what he deserved.

[Assassin]

from www.sportinglife.com

Wigan chairman Dave Whelan has confirmed Marlon King will never play for the club again after he was jailed for 18 months on Thursday.

The striker was found guilty of sexual assault and actual bodily harm over an incident in a London nightclub, which occurred in December while he was on loan at Hull.

King spent a subsequent spell on loan at Middlesbrough before returning to the Latics in the summer, but he will now be left without a club after a mandatory notice period has expired.

Whelan told Sky Sports News: "We have to follow the rules and regulations, which means we will have to give him 40 days notice that his contract will be cancelled.

"He is absolutely sacked - we will not tolerate football players who get sent to jail for 18 months. As far as we are concerned, he is finished with football at Wigan Athletic."

[Chazza]

He got what he deserved.

Too right, just looking at his previous which involves

2002 - 18 months reduced to 5 for handling a stolen car, think he had to wear a tag when he was playing

2008 - Alleged to have headbutted Dean Windass on a night out at a casino in Scarborough.

2008 - Banned from driving for 56 days afted being caught doing 106 in a 60

What a great guy!!

[Ben_Itez]

Seeing this news reminded me of an article i read in the Guardian last year where i thought he came across as a complete tit. The sentence at the end sums him up for me.


Wigan see best of reformed King of bling

The £5m January signing tells Daniel Taylor how he worked his way from prison to the Premier League


Saturday March 15, 2008
The Guardian


When Marlon King pulls through the gates at Wigan Athletic's training ground it soon becomes apparent that he has all the 21st-century footballer's accessories. For starters he is driving a top-of-the-range Mercedes with smoked windows. There is a decorative flash of gold on his top row of teeth and, on his right hand, the kind of diamond-encrusted ring favoured by Brooklyn pimps in the 1970s.

It is not a look the average Wiganer would want to clone (except those who remember Northern Soul nights at Wigan Casino) but this streetwise Londoner has quickly set about winning over the followers of Steve Bruce's team. There is a slight grimace as he dwells on the fact he is still waiting for his first goal but it is fair to say that Wigan's better results have coincided with his £5m arrival from Watford - and that Fulham might wish they could turn back time when they reflect on the January transfer window.

King had been about to sign at Craven Cottage but the deal disintegrated when Fulham announced he had failed a routine medical examination, an allegation the 27-year-old vehemently denies. "If I had failed my medical it would have killed Fulham's interest in me," he says. "So it's strange, isn't it, that they said they still wanted to sign me? The truth is that, behind the scenes, they were trying to renegotiate terms. That was the only stumbling block. It was an issue about how the money was going to be paid, nothing to do with my medical. I was fine, 100%, and I have played every game since. So to hear that was really disappointing."

He makes the point calmly and eloquently but it is a sensitive subject for someone who has twice gone through the injury every footballer fears most: a ruptured cruciate ligament. The first time was when he was at Gillingham in 2001, only five games after being released from a five-month prison sentence for handling stolen goods. The second was even crueller, eight games into his first season as a Premier League footballer with Watford. Apart from a demoralising spell at Nottingham Forest, King had long been regarded as one of the best strikers outside the top division and was desperate to show he could play at the higher level. It was a devastating blow personally and a critical one for his team, who scored only 29 goals all season and finished bottom.

"One minute I was playing in the Premier League. The next, it was all gone. To do so well in the previous season [King had scored 22 goals], get promoted and then for it to be taken away so early was heartbreaking. And it played a big part in why I decided to come to Wigan. I had another opportunity to play at the highest level and I had to take it because, in football, you never know what could happen in the next six months. I could have got another injury. Or, God forbid, Watford might not have gone up. Football works in a funny way. One minute you're the talk of the town. The next you just fade away."

King knows that better than most after combining the early stages of his career, while he was making his name as a fast, lithe and athletic striker at Dulwich Hamlet, Barnet and Gillingham, with frequently getting in trouble with the police, culminating in being caught behind the wheel of a stolen £32,000 BMW convertible. "I was young, I wanted a car and I couldn't wait, so I purchased a car I shouldn't have," he recalls. "I could have gone out and got a car on finance. But I didn't. People think, 'He must have broken in somewhere' but that wasn't the case. It wasn't like that. The biggest disappointment for me was letting my family down and being away from them. But I never thought my career was over."

He was at Brixton Prison first, then Standford Hill, where his jobs included canteen work, cleaning and being a gym orderly. "I got my head down in there and worked hard. I didn't go in with an attitude. People spoke to me on the level and I just knuckled down. If I'd gone in there with the attitude, 'Look at me, I'm Jack-the-lad' it would have been very different. But I didn't. Everyone inside was supportive. I never had one problem. I couldn't play in the prison team because I was under contract to Gillingham but I refereed matches and did some coaching sessions. There were a lot of guys who wanted to be footballers, so they were very positive towards me. And I've kept in touch with some of them.

"Not everyone that goes to jail is the worst criminal. Everyone makes mistakes in life. There were lifers in there and they were fine. There's not much, you know, between going to jail for life, going to jail for one day or getting a ticket." He holds his thumb and forefinger close together for effect. "It's like that," he says. "You could get into a fight with someone, hit them and they fall wrong and, that's it, you're on a murder charge. All from a fight. But it doesn't mean you are the worst criminal."

These days life is very different. Tomorrow King will line up against a third-from-bottom Bolton Wanderers side managed by Gary Megson, the manager who told him he "wasn't good enough" for a Nottingham Forest team that was belly-flopping into League One. Then King will go back to his nice house, with a long drive, in Prestbury, Cheshire's equivalent of Hollywood Hills.

He has a pretty wife with two young children. "I've got a family now and they're my priority. I'm blessed to be playing professional football and I like to think I'm doing things the right way now. I've matured, I suppose. I can't blame anyone for what happened when I was younger but I did get in with the wrong crowd. I got into a comfort zone and didn't realise what was happening to me. I felt I could act Jack-the-lad and do what I want. But you can't. When you're a footballer you're in the public eye. A lot of people pay money to see you. They look up to you and you've got to act the right way."

He does not profess to be a standard-bearer but he gets his kicks now from steering teenagers away from the same mistakes. "There are a lot of things I do in my own time. I've been to Brixton Prison, for example. There's a community centre where I grew up called Peckham Pulse and I've spoken to kids there, too. If I can touch one kid, show them that it's not too late to get back on the straight and narrow, then I will feel I've achieved something.

"The pleasing thing for me is that they always want me to go back. You can have professional people speaking to kids

about certain stuff but do they really understand what these kids are feeling? There are not many things I haven't seen, so I know what they're talking about,

and when I speak to them I can see the reaction I get from them. I'm not just a footballer telling them to get an education. I've been to prison and got myself into trouble and I like to think I've turned myself around. These kids are looking at me thinking, 'We have got a chance.' They see me pulling off in a nice car, wearing smart gear, and they think that's what they want to achieve."

http://football.guardian.co.uk/News_...265640,00.html

[Tee]

He does the crime, he does the time.

I have absolutely no pity for him given his shameful history.

[Shaggy]

Absolute scumbag. He was out celebrating his wife's 2nd pregnancy.

[Slim]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2...riminal-career


Marlon King's convictions today for sexual assault and actual bodily harm are the latest in a long list of court appearances stretching back 12 years.

London's Southwark Crown Court heard that since the age of 17 the Jamaica international has found himself in the dock on no less than seven previous occasions involving 13 offences. They feature dishonesty, drink driving and other motoring offences, and violence against women.

Only one, receiving a stolen £30,000 BMW, resulted in a prison sentence – 18 months reduced to nine on appeal. Apart from some community penalties, the other punishments were fines.

King's first brush with the law was in December 1997 at Camberwell Youth Court when he was convicted of wounding another footballer. At the time he was playing for a local Dulwich side. His victim was part of a St Thomas's Hospital team.

Magistrates heard how he grabbed his opponent round the neck and, as the referee booked him, returned to the attack with a head-butt and a punch in the face, fracturing his cheekbone. He was given an 80-hour community order and ordered to pay £250 compensation.

Two years later, at Tower Bridge Magistrates' Court, he was fined a total of £240 for two counts of theft and two of fraudulently using a tax disc.

In 2002 he was brought before Camberwell Green Magistrates for driving with excess alcohol and while uninsured. He was fined £650, ordered to pay £40 costs and disqualified from driving for nine months.

A week later at Greenwich Magistrates' Court he received a six-month community rehabilitation order and was ordered to pay £100 compensation for criminal damage and attempting to obtain property by deception. Later that year, at Inner London Crown Court, he was jailed for receiving the BMW Cabriolet.

A year after that he was at Bow Street Magistrates' Court for two counts of common assault. The court heard how a cab driver had called police about a "disturbance" in Berwick Street, Soho. When officers arrived they saw King chasing two women along the road with a belt and buckle wrapped round his right fist.

One of them explained he had attacked them for "no apparent reason", punching her in the face and causing cuts and swelling. He was fined £1,000, and ordered to pay £500 compensation as well as £100 costs.

His last court appearance was in 2005, again at Bow Street, when he was convicted of threatening behaviour. This involved him approaching a woman near Leicester Square, and again for "no apparent reason" spat at her. He was fined £300, and ordered to pay £500 compensation and £55 costs.

[Shaggy]

As he was led away, one of his moronic relatives shouted from the gallery:

"This is institutionalised racism! Gerrard walks the streets. Look at you all, you're all white! Heil Hitler!"

[dom9]

When officers arrived they saw King chasing two women along the road with a belt and buckle wrapped round his right fist.

What a psycho.

[Rich]

Absolute scumbag. He was out celebrating his wife's 2nd pregnancy.

Get it ****ing right Shaggs.... THIRD pregnancy. Shoddy journalism.

[Slim]

As he was led away, one of his moronic relatives shouted from the gallery:

"This is institutionalised racism! Gerrard walks the streets. Look at you all, you're all white! Heil Hitler!"

They are not deluded in any way then??

The thing that struck me is that apparently he pleaded not guilty when he was sent down over the stolen car, not guilty over some of the minor offences he was subsequently found guilty of, and now says he is not guilty of this assault either, that it's mistaken identity and he is going to appeal.

It's always someone else's fault, eh Marlon?

[Marky]

I ****ing hate the old Racism card.It's a joke.