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BRIGHTON, England (AP) — A British court has found Turkish forward Colin Kazim-Richards guilty of making an anti-gay gesture at a match while playing for Blackburn.
The 27-year-old claimed he was bantering with the crowd at his former club Brighton when he made the gesture during the second-tier match in February 2013.
Magistrate Darren Reynolds, sitting at Brighton Magistrates' Court, says "these gestures were insulting."
Kazim-Richards, who currently plays for the Turkish club Bursaspor, was fined 750 pounds ($1,256), ordered to pay 620 pounds ($1,038) of court costs and a 75-pound ($126) victim surcharge.
Fans of the second-tier English club Brighton last year published a dossier highlighting the constant anti-gay abuse they face at matches.
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