Dyer and Wright-Phillips plead guilty to burglary
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Nathan Dyer pleaded guilty to burglary at Portsmouth Magistrates Court.
The Southampton midfielder Nathan Dyer has been ordered to carry out 60 hours of community service after pleading guilty to burglary at Portsmouth Magistrates' Court. The order relates to an incident in February, when Dyer, 20, and team-mate Bradley Wright-Phillips were accused of stealing cash and mobile phones from the Bar Bluu club in Southsea.
Dyer was seen on CCTV pictures from the bar rifling through handbags in the cloakroom, while Wright-Phillips allegedly stood watch. Staff later reported that three mobile phones and £145 in cash were missing.
The pair had broken a club curfew to visit the bar and were each fined two weeks' wages - £16,000 for Wright-Phillips and £10,000 for Dyer - by their club. Hampshire police first arrested both players in March, and Wright-Phillips indicated earlier this month that he intends to plead not guilty to the same charge of non-dwelling burglary.
Chairman of the Bench Christopher Malone today ordered Dyer to pay a total of £392.50 compensation to the four victims as well as £65 costs. He warned Dyer that if he did not complete the 60 hours of unpaid work satisfactorily within a 12-month period he could face imprisonment.
Dyer's solicitor, Mark Haslam, said his client was "a naive young man" who felt "deeply ashamed" at having being "led astray" while under the influence of alcohol. He said Dyer had described today's appearance in court as "the worst day of his life".
"Nathan Dyer accepts that he did look through the bags, although he did not enter the room intending to do so and he did not take any property from these bags," Haslam said. "While he has a successful career as a professional footballer, he is young and naive and on the evening in question he had been drinking. Understandably his judgment was affected by having taken alcohol. He can't explain what he did, he simply didn't think straight. "He was being encouraged by others, he was led astray."
Mr Haslam said Dyer wanted to offer compensation to the victims despite not having stolen the items himself. "Nathan Dyer offers his humble and profuse apologies to all those who have been distressed by this sorry enterprise," Haslam said.
Wright-Phillips is due to appear before Portsmouth magistrates on September 2 for a committal hearing.
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Relatives of the more famous Dyer and Wright-Philips?
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Originally posted by KrU:
Relatives of the more famous Dyer and Wright-Philips?
Dyer i am not sure but Wright-Philips should be cos i don't think you can find others using the same two surnames and yet not related... -
Originally posted by KrU:
Relatives of the more famous Dyer and Wright-Philips?
Dyer nope, but Wright-philps yes. He is the biological son Ian Wright, and younger half-brother Shaun Wright-Phillips, Ian's adopted son.
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wtf..
steal things
