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The FA said, external that following the hearing, an "aggravated breach", where using abusive and/or insulting words which included reference to colour and/or race, was found to be proven.

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He was initially charged with threatening and abusive behaviour towards Nadia, and of threatening her family.

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The FA has charged Palace with failing to ensure that supporters did not behave in an improper, offensive, abusive or provocative way.

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An abusive husband who murdered his wife in a violent knife attack after accusing her of having an affair has been jailed for at least 21 years.

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Mr Sword said Kitterick had been abusive during a Teams briefing, in November 2024, about the council's plans to buy a city centre block of flats to house people at risk of homelessness.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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