The man who threw a bottle on to the track at the start of London
Olympics men’s 100m final has today been found guilty of public order offences.
Ashley Gill-Webb, 34, of South Milford in North Yorkshire, has been found
guilty of intending to cause the finalists harassment, alarm or distress by
using threatening, abusive or disorderly behaviour, contrary to Section 4A of
the Public Order Act 1986 and also of using threatening, abusive or disorderly
behaviour within the hearing and sight of a person who would likely be caused harassment,
alarm or distress as a result, contrary to Section 5 of the 1986 Act.
The Judge, sitting at Stratford Magistrates’ Court, found that Mr
Gill-Webb, who suffers from bipolar disorder, was acting ‘rationally and
wrongly’ at the time he threw the bottle. Gill-Webb has been told that the
maximum sentence he could expect to receive would be a community-based penalty.
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