A Welsh student's wept in the dock after being jailed for 56 days - for mocking and racially abusing Fabrice Muamba on Twitter as he lay on the pitch following a heart attack.

21 year old Liam Stacey from Pontypridd pleaded guilty and is only expected to serve half his sentence.

Three of Muamba's Bolton team-mates visited him in hospital earlier, ahead of their rearranged FA Cup quarter-final at Spurs - where the midfielder collapsed ten days ago.