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R v John Terry was a 2012 English criminal law case in which the Chelsea and England defender John Terry was found not guilty of racially abusing the Queens Park Rangers defender Anton Ferdinand in a football match between Chelsea and Queens Park Rangers on 23 October 2011. The prosecution, acquittal and civil inquiry and penalty by the Football Association received broad media coverage. The taint of bringing race into an retortive insult short of full, criminal law-defined racial abuse had repercussions in football. Terry lost the captaincy of the England national team which he retired from and England coach Fabio Capello quit as manager when the Football Association made its reprimand.

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  • R v John Terry was a 2012 English criminal law case in which the Chelsea and England defender John Terry was found not guilty of racially abusing the Queens Park Rangers defender Anton Ferdinand in a football match between Chelsea and Queens Park Rangers on 23 October 2011. The prosecution, acquittal and civil inquiry and penalty by the Football Association received broad media coverage. The taint of bringing race into an retortive insult short of full, criminal law-defined racial abuse had repercussions in football. Terry lost the captaincy of the England national team which he retired from and England coach Fabio Capello quit as manager when the Football Association made its reprimand. (en)
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  • John Terry was found not guilty by the Magistrates (en)
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  • BBC reproduced court transcript of Westminster Magistrates Court: 13 07 12 (en)
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  • Westminster Magistrates' Court (en)
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  • 2012-07-13 (xsd:date)
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  • Regina v John Terry (en)
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  • Howard Riddle (en)
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  • Racism (en)
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  • criminal threshold of racial abuse requiring intent to insult and not repeating back an accusation put (en)
  • unlikely but on facts not beyond all reasonable doubt defence of belief recipient made an accusation in alike terms (en)
  • team sportsmen (en)
  • context of regular taunts and provocative gesture between people involved during game (en)
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  • R v John Terry (en)
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  • *Judgment (en)
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  • R v John Terry was a 2012 English criminal law case in which the Chelsea and England defender John Terry was found not guilty of racially abusing the Queens Park Rangers defender Anton Ferdinand in a football match between Chelsea and Queens Park Rangers on 23 October 2011. The prosecution, acquittal and civil inquiry and penalty by the Football Association received broad media coverage. The taint of bringing race into an retortive insult short of full, criminal law-defined racial abuse had repercussions in football. Terry lost the captaincy of the England national team which he retired from and England coach Fabio Capello quit as manager when the Football Association made its reprimand. (en)
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  • R v Terry (en)
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