Simpson’s curfew overturned

Danny Simpson will be able to enjoy Leicester’s title celebrations after a judge agreed to quash his curfew sentence for domestic violence and allow him to do unpaid work later in the summer.

The 29-year-old asked a court on Thursday to let him pay a fine instead of finishing his community sentence for throttling his ex-girlfriend Stephanie Ward.

Simpson’s lawyer said press “intrusion” meant the footballer had only completed 145 of the 300 hours he was given for the assault in December 2014.

But District Judge Alexandra Simmonds said Simpson had so much money a fine would be “no punishment.”

Instead, Judge Simmonds, sitting at Manchester Magistrates’ Court, revoked the unpaid work order and gave Simpson an immediate curfew order, whereby Simpson would have to be at home between 10pm to 6am for the next 21 days.

It meant Simpson would be monitored with an electronic ankle tag at his home in Salford – and miss out on a string of his title-winning team’s end of …

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