A FATHER and son have been convicted of tragedy chanting during a match between Millwall and Leicester earlier this year.

Peter Brooks, 48, and Freddie Brooks, 18, who are both Millwall fans, pleaded guilty to the offence at Bromley Magistrates’ Court last week.

The pair were filmed making helicopter gestures to Leicester fans and pointing at a passing helicopter before laughing during an FA Cup match on January 6.

The Metropolitan Police said in a statement it was “clearly” a reference to the helicopter crash in 2018 that killed Leicester’s owner Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha and four others.

Peter and Freddie Brooks were given three-year Football Banning Orders and ordered to pay costs and a victim surcharge.

Tragedy chanting was made a public order offence last August and DC Phil Dickinson from the Met Police’s Football Investigations Team said: “While such incidents might previously have been viewed as simply being in poor taste, they are now rightly being recognised for what they are – vile offences which cause upset and outrage.

“We are familiar with fans taunting their opponents at football matches, but this is generally done and taken in good humour and without offence. This incident crossed the line of what is acceptable. It was quite simply a hate crime.”