Football hooligan jailed over attack on Guardian columnist Owen Jones
standard.co.ukOwen Jones.James Healy, 40, admitted assaulting the columnist outside of a pub in August last year, but denied being motivated by Mr Jones’s sexuality or political campaigning – claiming he did not know who he was.After a two-day hearing to determine Healy’s motive, Recorder Judge Anne Studd QC previously found the unprovoked attack could only be motivated by Mr Jones’s media profile as a left-wing polemicist.She added: “I therefore propose to sentence Mr Healy on the basis that this was a wholly unprovoked attack on Mr Jones by reason of his widely published left-wing and LGBTQ beliefs by a man who has demonstrable right-wing sympathies.”Healy was sent to prison for two years and eight months.Following Healy’s arrest, a search of his home.
