Footballer gets 18 months after sex assault on woman

PREMIER League footballer Marlon King has been jailed for 18 months for groping a young woman in a nightclub and then breaking her nose after she spurned his “disgusting” advances.

The striker, who was celebrating both his wife’s pregnancy and scoring a winning goal hours earlier, was repeatedly “cold-shouldered” by women in London’s packed Soho Revue Bar last December.

When a slightly built university student also recoiled from his touch, he lost his temper and in an outburst of “completely gratuitous violence” lashed out, “smashing” her to the floor.