A 50-year-old man has been charged with a public order offence after he was seen at a pub wearing a T-shirt mocking the Hillsborough disaster. Paul Grange, from Worcester, was charged by West Mercia police with displaying threatening and abusive writing likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress. A police spokesman said Grange had been bailed to appear at Worcester magistrates court on a date in July. The West Mercia force launched an inquiry on Sunday after a man was seen wearing a T-shirt suggesting the 1989 disaster, in which 96 Liverpool football fans died, was “God’s way of helping” a pest control firm. Pictures were posted on social media of the man, who was asked to leave the Brewers Arms, in the St John’s area of Worcester, by the landlord. Supt Kevin Purcell said: “I understand the alarm and distress the offensive language shown on this T-shirt will have caused to both the people in and around the pub and further afield. “I would like to thank the landlord of the pub for his support and all the members of the public who were in the pub at the time and came forward to report it.”

In April, an inquest concluded the 96 fans were unlawfully killed.Man who wore offensive Hillsborough t-shirt fined £600 Paul Grange leaving Worcester Justice Centre Court (Picture: Newsteam)Shower Caddy Hangs From Towel Rack A man who was arrested for wearing a T-shirt mocking the Hillsborough disaster has been fined £600 after admitting a public order offence.Small Dogs For Sale Milwaukee Wi Paul Grange, 50, told Worcester Magistrates’ Court he was ashamed of what he had done and had deservedly lost his home, job, friends and relationship.Puppies For Sale Near Norfolk Grange – who pleaded guilty to a charge of displaying abusive writing likely to cause distress – was also ordered to pay a £60 victim surcharge and £135 in costs.

MORE: ISIS militants behead four footballers after accusing them of spying Paul Grange said he was ashamed of his behaviour (Picture: PA) Representing himself in court, Grange told magistrates he now realised the hurt caused by a slogan on his t-shirt, which described the 1989 Hillsborough tragedy as ‘God’s way of helping’ a pest control firm. Images of the shirt, which Grange, from Lower Wick, Worcester, openly wore in a pub beer garden on Sunday May 29, caused widespread anger on social media. After hearing a victim impact statement from a woman whose brother was one of the 96 Liverpool fans who died at Hillsborough, Grange told magistrates: ‘Hearing that statement, it’s hit home, the personal affect of it.’ He added the t-shirt was supposed to be between friends but once it went public he realised how badly it affected people. MORE: Seagulls stole blind grandmother’s Subway sandwich MORE: Police investigating drugs link to T in the Park deaths

A repulsive photo of a man in a beer garden wearing a vile t-shirt mocking the Hillsborough disaster and referring to those who died as pests has gone viral over the Internet, sparking worldwide outrage. The photo was posted on Twitter yesterday evening showing a middle aged man wearing the t-shirt which reads, ‘HILLSBOROUGH. Gods way of helping [a British pest control firm]’, reports the Liverpool Echo. And, as you would expect, the people of the internet have reacted very severely: Not usually a fan of people grassing on the Internet, but that twat in the Hillsborough t shirt deserves everything he's getting. — Jack (@jackm1892) May 30, 2016 RE: Hillsborough T-shirt Cunt. Is glee in fact he's prob too scared to leave home & wanting him to take a big beating really where it's at? — MrChris (@MrChris1980) May 30, 2016 Glad the cunt with the Hillsborough shirt has been found, deserve whatever you get you soft twat — Karl (@karlsarj95) May 29, 2016

The photo was shot in the beer garden of the Brewers Arms, in Worcester, where the man was later thrown out and subsequently barred. However, despite the pub making the correct decision and removing the man, who claims he was spat at and confronted while he sat in the beer garden (for obvious reasons), landlord Mark Daniels has also received numerous threats and online abuse forcing the pub to post this tweet. This has devistated me and my family I didn't print buy or wear that discusting shirt I removed him when alerted couldn't do anymore gutted — The Brewers Arms (@the_brewersarms) May 29, 2016 Apparently, the same man was also caught wearing this t-shirt in the past: Liverpool fans, and others who were simply disgusted by the man in general, have responded in the best possible way – by sending him over a thousand pounds worth of random goods to his house: — Empire of the Kop (@empireofthekop) May 30, 2016 Lou Brookes, whose brother Andrew was 26 when he died at Hillsborough, lives in Worcestershire – as was reported in the Liverpool Echo – and she does not want the photo of the man shared.

For this reason, we have chosen to follow the Echo’s lead and go with a pixellated version of the photo in this story. I personally don’t like posting the photo. People mean well in sharing it. But when they retweet the photo, with those words, it’s giving him the attention he wants. I think he’s a sick individual. It baffles me that he’s gone out of his way to have that printed on a t-shirt and why he’s wasting so much time and energy on our 96, who he obviously has so much contempt for. The man who wore the t-shirt has since been arrested on a public order offence according to an official statement released by West Mercia Police. A man from Worcester has been arrested by police today (Monday 30 May) after reports were received of a man wearing a t-shirt printed with offensive comments relating to the Hillsborough disaster. The man, aged 50, was arrested by officers this morning, under Section 4a of the Public Order Act 1986, on suspicion that with intent he displayed writing which was threatening, abusive, insulting and caused harassment, alarm or distress.