A man who threw a bottle into a crowd of football fans at a Dons game has been handed an 18-month match ban.
David Roy, 44, was standing in the Rangers section at Pittodrie when the Glasgow club played Aberdeen on August 5 last year and hurled the bottle over the segregation line and into the home supporters’ section.
The scaffolder was also handed 135 hours of unpaid work by Sheriff Ian Wallace when he appeared at Aberdeen Sheriff Court today for sentencing.
The incident happened near the end of the season opener, which finished in a 1-1 draw following Bruce Anderson’s late equaliser for the home side.
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Rangers striker Alfredo Morelos had been sent off earlier in the game.
After the bottle was thrown, stadium security staff studied CCTV images of Roy caught in the act.
Roy, whose address was given in court papers as Morefield Road, Glasgow, pled guilty to culpably and recklessly throwing a bottle into an area of people in the South Stand home section, narrowly missing spectators on August 5 2018.
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