Three cleared of assault after football match brawl
TWO players and a coach have been cleared of assault following a mass brawl between two teams during a football match.
Spartans FC assistant manager Jim Rae, 40, was ordered off after allegedly headbutting Livingston Juniors' defender Jonathan Clifford. The 21-year-old was in turn accused of spitting in Rae's face and butting him on the head, while team-mate Mark Wilson was accused of barging Rae to the ground.
After the brawl, at Spartans' football academy in Edinburgh's Pilton area on 31 October last year, Rae was charged with assault to injury and banned from the club's academy. Clifford was charged with assault, while Wilson, 24, faced claims of assault to injury.
But at Edinburgh Sheriff Court, all three were told prosecutors were dropping the cases against them.
During brief appearances before Sheriff Gordon Liddle, Clifford and Rae were told the case had been deserted. Wilson did not appear.
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