Andy Carroll to appear in court for breaching order with prison sentence possible
Former Newcastle and Liverpool forward Andy Carroll has been charged with breaching a non-harassment order and will appear in court on Tuesday.
Carroll, who was capped nine times by England and transferred from Newcastle to Liverpool for a club-record £35 million in 2011, was arrested in April after allegedly committing an offense the previous month.
Essex Police said: “A man has been charged with breaching a non-harassment order. Andrew Carroll, 36, of Epping, was arrested on 27 April and the alleged offenses relate to an incident in March this year. He will appear at Chelmsford Magistrates’ Court on 30 December.”
Carroll also counts West Ham, Reading and West Brom among his former employers and spent six years at the Hammers before returning to Newcastle in 2019.
After playing for Amiens and Bordeaux in France, he was transferred to National League South club Dagenham in July.
He has scored six goals for the Daggers this season but has not been named in the match squad for the last two matches.
A non-harassment order is a UK court order usually made to prevent a person from communicating with another person.
Penalties for violating this order range from a fine to up to five years in prison in the most serious cases.
