[Aaron D84]

Just goes to show the difference between being an England International and playing for a top 4 side and someone who half the country couldn't care about....

Sky Sports | Football | News | King jailed for 18 months

Glad they have made an example of a footballer for once however it just looks like it's a case of if your someone important then you can get away with things.

Deserves everything he's got though,

[Greg]

Jeez, these footballers are really blessed with intelligence aren't they!

[Heroik]

Shame on him...hope he gets it in jail

[bigtruck]

Nice way to celebrate his wife being pregnant.
This is his second jail term isn't it?

[g8tecrasher]

18 months

BBC SPORT | Football | My Club | W | Wigan | Wigan to sack jailed striker King

[RMCF]

All I can say is serves him right. Complete scumbag.

He had it all, an income and life that we can only dream of. Then messed it up. Just shows money doesn't buy class. Or that money will make everything better.

Pity some more high profile players or music stars weren't made an example of. Wondering if this sentence would have been handed down to a big star from Man Utd, Liverpool or Chelsea?

[Jai]

"Don't you know who I am? I'm a millionaire."- Marlon King

[abhinn]

“I got my head down in there and worked hard. I didn’t go in with an attitude. People spoke to me on the level and I just knuckled down. If I’d gone in there with the attitude, ‘Look at me, I’m Jack-the-lad’ it would have been very different. But I didn’t. Everyone inside was supportive. I never had one problem. “Not everyone that goes to jail is the worst criminal. Everyone makes mistakes in life… You could get into a fight with someone, hit them and they fall wrong and, that’s it, you’re on a murder charge. All from a fight. But it doesn’t mean you are the worst criminal.
“I’ve got a family now and they’re my priority. I’m blessed to be playing professional football and I like to think I’m doing things the right way now. I’ve matured, I suppose. I can’t blame anyone for what happened when I was younger but I did get in with the wrong crowd. I got into a comfort zone and didn’t realise what was happening to me. I felt I could act Jack-the-lad and do what I want. But you can’t. When you’re a footballer you’re in the public eye. A lot of people pay money to see you. They look up to you and you’ve got to act the right way.”
[B]King assesses his life in March 2008.

[Wild Weasel]

12 previous convictions ranging from theft to assault and he only served time once - and that was reduced from 18 to 5 months . Another win for the judicial system.

[FunkyMunkey]

Doing something like that... what a disgusting little boy he is.

[loz]

I see his agent seems to think they will be queuing up to sign him when he is released.

He is also going to appeal his sentence.

He seems to have a history of this behaviour though.

A year after that he was at Bow Street Magistrates' Court for two counts of common assault. The court heard how a cab driver had called police about a "disturbance" in Berwick Street, Soho. When officers arrived they saw King chasing two women along the road with a belt and buckle wrapped round his right fist.

One of them explained he had attacked them for "no apparent reason", punching her in the face and causing cuts and swelling. He was fined £1,000, and ordered to pay £500 compensation as well as £100 costs.

His last court appearance was in 2005, again at Bow Street, when he was convicted of threatening behaviour. This involved him approaching a woman near Leicester Square, and again for "no apparent reason" spat at her. He was fined £300, and ordered to pay £500 compensation and £55 costs.

Hope he gets treated well in prison...

[JohnG]

Agree with you all, it's time this cowardly thug learned what it's like to be on the receiving end.

[PJTX100]

Hope he gets acquainted with Mr Big.

[alexs2]

Another better suited to GC,hot on the heels of the Gerrard thread.