{"id":20658,"date":"2014-01-10T07:11:30","date_gmt":"2014-01-10T12:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=20658"},"modified":"2014-01-10T07:11:30","modified_gmt":"2014-01-10T12:11:30","slug":"irvine-unlikely-to-serve-six-month-jail-sentence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/irvine-unlikely-to-serve-six-month-jail-sentence\/","title":{"rendered":"Irvine unlikely to serve six month jail sentence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Milan judge on Thursday sentenced former F1 driver Eddie Irvine to six months in jail.<\/p>\n<p>The case dates all the way back to 2008, when Michael Schumacher&#8217;s former Ferrari teammate accused the son of the then Milan mayor of assaulting him at the city&#8217;s Hollywood nightclub.<\/p>\n<p>But Gabriele Moratti, son of the now former mayor Letizia, denied the charge, claiming a drunk Irvine in fact attacked him with a glass.<\/p>\n<p>Reports suggested the fight was over a text message Irvine, who retired from F1 after the 2002 season, sent to Moratti&#8217;s girlfriend.<\/p>\n<p>In 2011, it emerged that the case would head to court, after negotiations for a settlement collapsed.<\/p>\n<p>Now, on Thursday in Milan, the judge found 48-year-old Ulsterman Irvine guilty of &#8220;mutual injury&#8221;, and Moratti was given the same six-month jail sentence.<\/p>\n<p>But the Telegraph quoted Moratti&#8217;s lawyer as saying both sentences would probably be suspended after an appeal.<\/p>\n<p>And AFP news agency said all Italian jail sentences under two years are automatically suspended.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Milan judge on Thursday sentenced former F1 driver Eddie Irvine to six months in jail. The case dates all the way back to 2008, when Michael Schumacher&#8217;s former Ferrari teammate accused the son of the then Milan mayor of assaulting him at the city&#8217;s Hollywood nightclub. But Gabriele Moratti, son of the now former &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[312,5262,5340,4747],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20658"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20659,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20658\/revisions\/20659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}