Leicester, as we know, are a team strewn with opera-loving heroic underdogs but the law has called a halt on the nocturnal celebrations for one of their stars. Danny Simpson has been sidelined from all Vardy parties for the next three next weeks due to court-imposed curfew.
The news bring some finality to a domestic violence conviction brought against Simpson last year .Given how Leicester wilted without Simpson in the Emirates fixtures this season, the entire Leicester dream may never have happened had judge Alexandra Simmons given Simpson jailtime last summer when he was in court for domestic violence charges. Simpson had been in the dock over a Christmas party incident where he was discovered choking his ex-girlfriend Stephanie Ward by a local constabulary.
The Mail reported this at the time:
The court heard Ms Ward made a frantic eight-minute-long 999 call in which she can be heard begging him to 'get off' during a drunken row at family gathering at Christmas.
When officers arrived they found Simpson straddled over Ms Ward and he was arrested while his former girlfriend was left 'crying hysterically and cowering' in the corner of the room.
Simpson opted not to testify and was given 300 hours unpaid community service.
With the season winding down, Simpson was back in court today as his lawyers were claiming he couldn't actually carry out the community service because of 'media intrusion'. Simpson had instead proposed paying a fine to sort the matter. But according to ITV, Simpson was instead given a night curfew over the next three weeks:
The defender applied to have the sentence turned in to a fine instead, but the judge ruled he would be on curfew for 21 days.
It was Simpson who quoted Drake after Leicester won the league two weeks.
Started from the bottom now we're here pic.twitter.com/nLf3sdTmtT
— DANNY SIMPSON (@dannysimpson) May 3, 2016
The operative word 'here' seems to still be the bottom.
