A metropolitan police officer was fired after throwing a flare in a crowd and “singing tragedy” while attending football matches as a supporter.
Detective agent Gordon Irikefe turned out to have committed coarse misconduct in acts of “unacceptable” football hooliganism at Arsenal matches between October 2022 and April last year, the power said.
The officer also received a three -year prohibition of all British football matches after a hearing at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Monday, said the Met.
Det Con IIKEFE, affiliated with the Central South Command unit of the Force, was confronted on Thursday with a misconduct hearing after allegations that he lit and threw a pyrotechnic in the crowd during a away game in Munich while he was not employed on 17 April last year .
He was arrested and a fine of £ 83 (€ 100) by the German police the same day to wear a full Balaclava and sunglasses in the stadium.
The hearing discovered that he had violated the norms of professional behavior for discreditable behavior, the power said.
The Con IIKEFE was also served in October in October with a summons after a separate investigation by the Central Football Unit of the Met.
Westminster Magistrates' Court heard that the officer had come to the police on various occasions due to disorderly and antisocial behavior in football matches, for which he had received management action.
In February 2023 he heard “helicopter” screaming at a Leicester City match. The former owner of the club Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha died with four others when a helicopter crashed outside their King Power Stadium in October 2018.
Det Con Irikefe would also have made lusty gestures and abused shouted at a replacement player in the game, and hide his identity and intimidating other fans, including with the help of pyrotechnics, said the with.
An application for an order for the football ban was granted, which means that the Con IIKEFE is forbidden to attend regulated football matches in the UK and have to surrender his passport when asked for road matches abroad.
He cannot go within a mile of the Arsenal's Emirates Stadium, or two miles from a stadium where the national team of England plays, if they play four hours four hours before and after the game, visit four hours before And after a road game the power said.
Det Con Irikefe, who resigned on 12 February before he was rejected without notification, will also be placed on the blocked list of the College of Police.
Detective -head inspector Emma Bond said: “DC Ilikefe has shown an unacceptable behavioral pattern in football matches, let alone a police officer who has to maintain the highest standards, either employed or out of service.
“His actions have not only subjected him to an order for football, but also cost him his work.
“I am grateful to professional norms and colleagues of football for bringing the evidence in this case together to ensure that we have been able to take decisive action.”
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