Man United defender Maguire gets Greece brawl sentence reduced
Football
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AFP
| Mar 05, 2026
A court in Greece yesterday reduced a suspended jail sentence against Manchester United defender Harry Maguire over a 2020 brawl in the tourist island of Mykonos, state media reported.
The 32-year-old had his sentence cut to 15 months by the court on the island of Syros, the Athens-Macedonian state agency reported.
The defender was originally handed a suspended sentence of 21 months and 10 days in 2020 after being found guilty of assaulting a police officer, attempted bribery and other charges.
He had been arrested after an alleged incident at a nightclub in Mykonos and spent two nights in police custody before flying home.
Maguire's brother Joe and friend Christopher Sharman were also found guilty on a range of charges and sentenced to 13 months in prison, suspended for three years.
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All three men denied the charges.
The appeal trial was postponed four times between 2023 and 2025 – due to procedural issues, including lawyers' strikes and scheduling problems.
According to media reports at the time, a fight started at a nightclub over claims Maguire's sister Daisy had been injected with what the defence said was a suspected drug.