Man arrested after online comments about fan death

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Man arrested after online comments about fan ******

Mark Townsend ***** during a match between Sheffield Wednesday and West Bromwich Albion [West Bromwich Albion]

A social media user has been arrested after messages apparently mocking the ****** of a man at a Sheffield Wednesday game were shared online.

West Brom supporter Mark Townsend ***** from a medical episode during the match on Saturday, in a stand where 97 football fans ***** during the Hillsborough disaster in 1989.

A social media account, which has since been deleted, was alleged to have said Mr Townsend’s ****** was “another one to add to the Leppings lane tally. Up the owls”.

A man, aged 55, had been arrested on suspicion of malicious communications and remained in police custody, South Yorkshire Police confirmed.

“It is alleged that malicious communications were shared following the ****** of a man during a football match on Saturday 28 September,” a spokesperson for the force said.

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