Relevance?

In my paper yesterday - "In court today, the brother of Premiership footballer ****** was accused of....". Where I have put asterisks, the paper printed the footballer's name. Nowhere in the rest of the article was there any reference to the footballer, and it is clear he is in no way involved in the case. So why was the relationship mentioned? Why should a completely innocent person have their name associated, however obliquely, with a trial which is nothing to do with them? I won't identify the newspaper concerned, but I have to say it is one from which I would have expected rather higher standards.