https://www.essexlive.news/news/essex-n ... an-4628038
Cambridge United fan Simon Dobbin has died five years after he was attacked in Southend.
The club confirmed that Mr Dobbin passed away at his home this morning.
Father and husband Simon Dobbin was attacked in March 2015 in Southend after a football game between Southend United and his beloved Cambridge United. He was ambushed while en route to the Blue Boar pub on Victoria Avenue by a group of thugs and repeatedly stomped on. The attack left him permanently brain damaged; he was unable to walk, talk or control his movements.
Twenty-five men reportedly set upon Simon that night. Of that group, nine were convicted for violent disorder on July 17, 2017. A further three men were convicted at the same trial for conspiracy to commit violent disorder and one other man was convicted of assisting an offender and admitted possessing a pepper spray. Since the trial, however, ten of the men have been released from prison.
What is wrong with this country?
ffs.
