Jon Flanagan has been sentenced for an assault on his girlfriend.
The Liverpool defender received a 12-month community order with 15 rehabilitation activity days. On top of that, 40 hours of unpaid work in the community.
The assault happened on Duke Street in Liverpool city centre in the early hours of December 22nd, the maximum sentence for which is a six-month jail term.
The judge said:
You are a relatively young man with no previous convictions and it is therefore sad that you have come before the court today due to your behaviour.
This is an unpleasant episode…as we have discussed at the previous hearing this was not just a single act in that few minutes it was a matter of this lady going to the floor twice and you used your foot on her on one occasion.
I find this was a category two offence, this lady does have injuries but of course she did not attribute those injuries to you.
You claim to have no memory of this incident which does suggest you were very drunk indeed.
Flanagan was credited for his early guilty plea and will now have to serve his sentence. Any suggestion of compensation to the defendant was not considered as the couple still live together.
