Flash footage of the man, battered and bruised, after headbutting Roy Keane

The Crown Prosecution Service has released a photograph of the man who headbutted Roy Keane.

Scott Law is pictured with a bruise on his nose and red scratches between his eyes. The 43-year-old is an Arsenal supporter and was banned from attending a football match for three years after the altercation with the Sky Sports pundit.

Law was at the Emirates Stadium watching Arsenal’s 3-1 win over Manchester United when the incident happened on September 3. Highbury Corner Magistrates Court heard how the altercation began as Keane went to do the final analysis of the match alongside Micah Richards.

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CCTV footage widely shared on social media showed Richards stepping in to defuse the apparent confrontation. Law’s defense team said CCTV footage from inside the stadium, shown in court, showed former Manchester United player Mr Keane elbowing the defendant in the face – as the MEN reports.

Handing down his verdict, District Judge Angus Hamilton said he believed Law had been “untruthful about what happened” during the match. He said: “There was no reason why Mr Keane should have picked on him in particular… I’m sure Mr Law attacked Mr Keane.”

Civil engineer Law did not react when the verdict was given. But outside court, his legal representatives suggested he planned to appeal his conviction.

Mr Keane said he was “in shock” from the attack and suffered bruising to his chest and arms from the incident. Giving evidence, the 52-year-old told the court: “There was a lot of noise and shouting, as you would expect at a football match. I was walking and before I knew it I was hit. I felt the contact and fell back through some doors.

“I didn’t expect it at all. The only way I can describe it is that I was in shock. I didn’t expect it to happen, not when I was at my job.”

Law, who sat under the Sky Sports studio during the match, said Mr Keane was “very animated” and “angry” throughout the game, adding that he had “never really seen that behavior from someone working in the Sky box”.

He told the court: “Mr Keane was puffing out his cheeks. It was right next to the glass. He was knocking on the window. Mr. Keane picked me out and started telling me to see him outside. Point to the doors in the box.”

Law added that he put his “head down in a defensive manner” to “protect” his face and claimed he was being “blamed by the media”. But the judge reviewed his account before finding him guilty of common assault.

Law told the court his Emirates Stadium season ticket was his ‘prized possession’ and said: ‘It’s the main part of my social circle. My wife organizes her diary around Arsenal games because she knows I’ll be there.”

He will miss three years and was also ordered to carry out 80 hours of unpaid work and must pay legal costs of £650 plus a victim surcharge of £114.

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