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Teenager avoids jail for racially abusing Ian Wright after losing game of Fifa

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An Irish teenager who admitted to racially abusing former footballer Ian Wright, has escaped a criminal conviction. 18-year-old Patrick O’Brien, of Tralee, abused Wright in private messages on Instagram last May after he lost a Fifa game on PlayStation.

O'Brien had pleaded guilty to two charges: harassing Wright on May 11 contrary to the Non-Fatal Offences Against The Person Act 1997, and sending a message by phone that was grossly offensive, obscene and menacing.

At a sentencing hearing at Tralee District Court on Wednesday, Judge David Waters said "he didn't see anything to be gained" by imposing a criminal conviction on the teen.

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