• Player tweets support for team-mate Ched Evans
• North Wales police looking into incident
Sheffield United have launched an internal inquiry into comments made on Twitter by reserve-team player Connor Brown following team-mate Ched Evans' prison sentence last week after being found guilty of rape.
Evans was jailed at Caernarfon crown court last Friday after being found guilty of raping the woman who was "too drunk to consent".
Brown, 19, responded to Evans' five-year prison sentence by tweeting his support for Evans. In his rant he allegedly called the rape victim a 'money-grabbing little tramp'. The posts have since been taken down from the profile. It follows the naming of the teenage victim on social network sites.
A statement released on the club's official website read: "Sheffield United confirmed today that an internal investigation is under way into social media comments made by reserve-team player Connor Brown following the verdict in the Ched Evans trial.
"The club is aware of a very serious matter regarding comments made through the Twitter account of one of its players. As a result we have launched an inquiry."
A complaint about the comments was made to North Wales police by a leading rape charity. A spokeswoman for North Wales Police said: "We are aware of some comments made on social media sites and we are collating all relevant information."
Evans admitted having sex with the victim, then aged 19, at a hotel in north Wales last May. In her evidence, the woman said she has no memory of the incident and the prosecution argued she was too drunk to consent to sexual intercourse.
Evans' co-accused, the Port Vale defender Clayton McDonald, 23, who also admitted having sex with the victim, was found not guilty of the same charge. Read More
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