Judge slams hockey chiefs on jaw break

A JUDGE has slammed ice hockey chiefs for operating in a legal “vacuum” after a player broke a rival’s jaw.

Macauley Stones of Bradford Bulldogs believed violence was “part of the culture” when he hit Reece Glossop of Nottingham Lions, a court heard.

Mr Glossop was in hospital for two nights in September 2015 and had metal plates put in his jaw.

No action was taken against Stones, then 19, by British Ice Hockey.

The hairdresser, now 21 and from Bradford, West Yorks, admitted GBH at the city’s crown court.

Sentencing him to nine months, suspended for two years, Judge Colin Burn said the sport had “been operating in some kind of vacuum as far as criminal law is concerned”. THE team filming BBC hit Blue Planet II fled in panic as sharks swarmed a shoot in a feeding frenzy.

Crews dived in French Polynesia to capture footage of the marbled grouper fish reproducing – which only happens once a year for less than an hour.

But while struggling with strong currents they attracted hundreds of grey reef sharks, which attacked them and smashed into their cameras.

Experienced cameraman Denis Lagrange said he “struggled” to swim as they were knocked around by the currents and the predators.

And in Sunday’s episode, narrator Sir David Attenborough tells viewers: “In the dark, the shark’s attitude has changed. Using electro-reception to hunt, they are tuned to electric stimulus – including the cameras. With the

SHOCK Predators swarm by film crew RARE SIGHT Team stalked grouper fish FIN A FRENZY Grey reef sharks crash BBC shoot

PUNCH Macauley Stones