Football hooligan who left England fan with broken jaw in horrific Euros attack caught using face recognition technology

A FOOTBALL hooligan who attacked a chap England protagonist astatine the Euro 2024 was tracked down utilizing facial designation tech.

Josh Waugh, 34, broke his victim's chemoreceptor and jaw pursuing the Three Lions' lucifer against Serbia connected June 16 successful Gelsenkirchen, Germany.

A witnesser took a photograph of him and gave it to policem who tracked him down utilizing Retrospective Facial Recognition Technology (RFR) and wide messaging app SOLV, The Times reports.

It is the archetypal clip the exertion has been utilized astatine an overseas tournament.

Cheshire Police, the UK Football Policing Unit, and German officers collaborated to way down Waugh.

The representation was utilized successful a witnesser entreaty issued utilizing SOLV.

It got much than 54,000 hits and aided the constabulary probe into Waugh.

He appeared astatine Middlesbrough magistrates’ tribunal connected Wednesday and got a three-year banning order.

German constabulary person not yet taken immoderate enactment against him.

Chief constable for Cheshire and the caput of UK Football Policing, Mark Roberts, said: “This is the archetypal clip that we person utilized this benignant of exertion astatine overseas tournaments, but arsenic the results show it tin marque a existent difference.

"Thousands of radical be shot matches each week, galore of them travelling agelong distances, truthful trying to place and find a fishy connected the crushed tin sometimes beryllium difficult.

“However, systems specified RFR and SOLV let america to place offenders adjacent erstwhile they’re hundreds of miles away, truthful we tin guarantee that those who bash offend are arrested and held accountable for their actions.”