YouTuber who stormed sports pitches dressed as players fined over Tesco tantrum

An infamous YouTuber has been fined for smashing a Tesco Express door and screaming abuse at staff.

Daniel Jarvis, known as Jarvo69 on social media, has gained notoriety for carrying out stunts at major sporting events.

Last November he stormed the pitch at Everton’s Hill Dickinson Stadium and posed as an Australian rugby player, wearing the full kit, in the starting line-up.

In September 2024, the 38-year-old joined the England squad during their pre-match line-up before a Nations League football match against Ireland at Dublin’s Aviva Stadium.

As a result of the prank, Maidstone magistrates banned him from entering football stadiums for five years.

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Jarvis, from Gravesend, also managed to play sex noises live on the BBC’s Match of the Day coverage of Wolves’ FA Cup third-round replay with Liverpool in January 2023.

The stunts have seen him amass almost 71 million views on YouTube, but have also landed him behind bars.

In April, he was sentenced to 15 months’ imprisonment for disrupting England’s Six Nations cricket match against Ireland by running onto the pitch at The Oval in November 2022.

Now out of prison, Jarvis was back at Medway Magistrates’ Court on Friday and admitted to causing criminal damage to Tesco Express in Whitehill Road – five minutes away from his home in the same street.

The court heard he went to the shop on New Year’s Day, three minutes before it was due to shut at 11pm. There were no customers in the store, and two staff members were locking up.

When they denied him entry, Jarvis verbally abused them and kicked the doors, prosecutor Caroline Aitken told the court.

She said: ‘A colleague described that he became angry and called her names such as ‘f****** b****’ and said to let him in or he would kick the doors down. He kicked the door and the glass panel cracked. The colleague called the police. The cost of the damage was between £1,000 and £2,000.’ Jarvis admitted the offence in a police interview.

Defence solicitor Kyle Alves told the court Jarvis had gone to the shop to buy migraine tablets.

‘He gets really bad migraines that affect his vision,’ he said. ‘At this stage there were no pharmacies open and the Tesco was the only shop open. He was desperate to get into the shop, and when faced with not being able to get in he became angry.’

Mr Alves said Jarvis, who is unemployed, is using the Jobcentre to help him set up his own business selling film products. The former London Southbank University film student is also about to start a job at a streaming company as a runner, the court heard.

Magistrates fined him £200 for the criminal damage, and ordered he pay an £80 court surcharge and another £80 prosecution costs. As he is claiming Universal Credit, he will pay the fine at a rate of £20 a month.

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