Source: SKY_Sports
King jailed for 18 months
// A bit of a hack but it works// The article snippet is wrapped onto a second line, even when #article-sub is emptyif( $("div#article-sub").children().length == 0 ) {$("div#article-sub").remove();} Wigan striker Wigan striker Marlon King has been jailed for 18 months after being found guilty of a nightclub attack on a young woman.[LNB] King, who was celebrating both his wife's pregnancy and scoring a winning goal hours earlier, was repeatedly "cold-shouldered" by women revellers in London's packed Soho Revue Bar last December.[LNB]When a slightly-built university student became the latest to recoil from his touch, he lost his temper and in an outburst of "completely gratuitous violence" lashed out, "smashing" her to the floor.[LNB]His single clenched fist blow was so powerful that two other revellers - one of them holding on to his arm - were also sent flying.[LNB]While bouncers moved in to restrain the muscular £5million striker, friends rushed to the aid of his victim.[LNB]As she was helped to her feet, blood poured from her shattered nose, London's Southwark Crown Court heard.[LNB]The 29-year-old claimed he was a victim of "mistaken identity".[LNB]But after hearing overwhelming evidence from a string of witnesses, including a football coach who insisted he was the assailant, the jury decided he was lying.[LNB]He was unanimously convicted of sexually assaulting the 20-year-old and causing actual bodily harm.[LNB]
