Disgraced football fan Andrew Williams was facing deportation from Portugal today after being convicted of rioting.

Williams, of Ravenswood Road, Burgess Hill, was one of 12 supporters who appeared in court after trouble broke out in the Algarve town of Albufeira.

The 22-year-old was given a seven-month jail term, suspended for three years, at a 14-hour court hearing.

He was arrested in Albufeira on Monday night when 200 English supporters ran riot through the main strip of bars.

Riot police and supporters clashed again in the resort the following night and a further 34 people were arrested. They were due in court today.

Eleven Britons, including Williams, were told they would be deported and would not be allowed to return to Portugal for up to five years as England geared up for its crunch match against Switzerland.

Williams was one of seven who received suspended jail sentences. Three were cleared of any criminal wrongdoing.

He was banned from Portugal for a year along with seven of the fans. Two others were banned for five years.

Garry Mann, 47, from Faversham, Kent - identified by Judge Filipe Marques as a ringleader - was sentenced to two years' imprisonment for taking part in a street battle with police.

Mann, a firefighter, claimed: "I wasn't even there. It's a stitch-up".

He will be sent back to England to serve his sentence.

A twelfth England fan in the dock was freed.

Earlier the fans, who had all denied any wrongdoing, arrived at the courthouse in Albufeira in three military police vans.

One of them blew kisses to the waiting media and another said "I'm innocent" as they were bundled into the building.

They were taken into the dock in a wood-panelled courtroom where they sat looking dishevelled.

Williams, the son of a jewellery shop worker, is in Portugal for Euro 2004 on a 25-night soccer-watching holiday with eight friends.

He lives with his disabled mother Margaret, 52, and father Chad, 55, in their bungalow in Burgess Hill.

Mrs Williams, a former hairdresser, said she was shocked to hear her son had been arrested.

She said: "He's a lovely lad and has never been in trouble before. He must have been in the wrong place at the wrong time."

She said her son, who works as an apprentice for mobile phone giant Ericsson, went to Euro 2004 on Saturday, planning to stay until the final.

Other convicted fans are: Peter Barwick, 37, from Middlesbrough, who was given a nine-month jail sentence, suspended for three years; and John Parkes, 19, from Dudley, Daniel Marsh, 20, from Barnsley, Ricky Tsigarides 22, from Cheshunt, John Jackson, 22 from Newcastle, and David Jackson, 28, from Peterborough, who were all given seven-month jail sentences, suspended for three years.

They were told they would be deported and could not return for a year.

Paul Donahue, 32, and Jason Boyle, 22, both from Manchester, were cleared of criminal wrongdoing but told they could not return to Portugal for five years.

Jack Hobbs, 19, from Oxford, was cleared of criminal wrongdoing but told he could not return to Portugal for a year.

Joe Nicholls, 24, from Aldershot, Hants, was freed.