A SOCCER yob who killed a rival football fan was back behind bars today after breaking an order banning him from going to matches.

Andrew McNee, 22, was jailed for seven years and hit with a 10-year football banning order in July 2003 after admitting the manslaughter of Nathan Shaw, 17, from Nottingham.

Nathan, an apprentice plumber, died in December 2002 after McNee smashed a pint glass on the back of his head outside Yates's Wine Lodge, Burnley. He had travelled to the town to watch his team, Nottingham Forest, play Burnley at Turf Moor.

McNee, of Osborn Way, Haslingden, was released from prison last month but was caught by police near Turf Moor soon afterwards when Burnley played Bolton Wanderers in a pre-season friendly.

Nathan's family called for him to go back to jail after magistrates fined him £200 when he admitted breaching the order - and now they have got their wish.

His mum Helen Shaw, 42, said: "I welcome this, people need protecting from him. He doesn't seem to have learned anything from what he did to my son and I worry he might do something like it again."

She added: "My concern was that he would devastate a family the way he has mine.

"I'm glad he's gone back inside.

"I can sleep at night, knowing he's not able to destroy any other lives."

Mrs Shaw said she now wanted to be consulted when McNee's case came back up before the parole board. Families of the victims of crime can express their views to the authorities considering an offender's release conditions.

McNee appeared before magistrates following his arrest and they followed sentencing guidelines by imposing a fine for the breach of the banning order.

But the Probation Service then followed up the case and informed the Home Office they would recall McNee under the terms of his release from prison on licence.

Prisoners serve part of their sentence imposed by the court in jail before they are released on licence under strict conditions. However, breaking those conditions can see offenders sent back inside to finish the full sentence.

Lancashire Probation Service spokeswoman Anne Matthews said: "If an offender who has been released from prison on licence breaks a condition imposed on him or her as part of the licence the probation service locally takes prompt action to ensure the offender will be arrested and taken back to prison. In this process the Probation Service promptly informs the Home Office and steps are taken for police to arrest and return the offender to custody."

McNee, arrested by police on Wednesday, could now serve the remainder of his sentence and stay behind bars until 2009, although his case will be reassessed every 12 months.

McNee, a member of the thug gang known as the Suicide Youth Squad, was originally charged with Nathan's murder, which he denied, but he was jailed after admitting the lesser charge of manslaughter. He was already subject to a banning order after being deported from Vienna after an England game in 2002.