A ENGLAND fan from Burnley has been refused entry into Japan, police sources have said.

Mark Holden, 33, was turned back by Japanese immigration authorities at Narita International Airport in Tokyo, the UK's National Criminal Intelligence Service (NCIS) said.

Holden was not among the 1,007 England supporters who have had their passports confiscated under banning orders.

But he was among hundreds who have had their profiles passed to Japanese police by NCIS as potential troublemakers.

He was convicted of threatening behaviour towards a police officer during the last World Cup in France in 1998 and was sentenced to two months, police said.

A travelling companion of Holden's, who has not been named, was also refused entry to Japan.

They were stopped a few days after Queens Park Rangers fan James Benedict Rayment, 34, from Banbury, Oxfordshire, who was also profiled by NCIS, and his travelling companion were halted at Narita after arriving on a flight from Istanbul, Turkey.

The first England fan to be turned away from this World Cup, Derby County supporter Andrew Cooper, 37, was sent back to Germany last week after being refused entry to South Korea.

He also was not subject to a banning order but had been sentenced to four months' jail in 1999 for possessing CS gas.