Overview
- Photos and video that circulated online during Saturday’s Middlesbrough v Wolves match appeared to show a Wolves supporter holding up a phone with the message “Police Killed Your Own.”
- Cleveland Police said they were alerted by the viral footage and worked with West Midlands Police to identify and arrest a suspect on Monday.
- The force named the man as Bradley Aston, 20, of Walsall, and charged him with a Section 4A public order offence; he was remanded in custody to appear at Wolverhampton court.
- The incident has been reported in the shadow of the August 22 A66 collision that killed two serving police officers and five others, and the Independent Office for Police Conduct’s inquiry into that crash remains ongoing.
- Police said the swift use of social media evidence to locate a suspect reflects a wider effort to keep football grounds safe and may deter similar abusive behaviour toward grieving communities.