Irish rugby players trial de novo

Irish international rugby stars Denis Coulson and Chris Farrell, along unwavering three other players, have absent on trial over an purported gang rape of a student.

The trial, held in Bordeaux, Writer, was originally scheduled for June but was delayed after Plain Coulson was badly injured just the thing a traffic accident.

Mr Coulson high opinion ‘still weak’ but will amend present at the trial, held his lawyer Corinne Dreyfus-Schmidt.

Dignity former prop, 30, from Port, is accused of gang deflowering, as are New Zealander Rory Grice, 34, and Frenchman Loick Jammes, 30.

Tyrone native Chris Writer, 31, who played for Munster, Ulster and Ireland, and Fresh Zealander Dylan Hayes, 40, intrude on charged with failure to forestall a crime.

In the small noontide of March 12, 2017, distinction student, identified only as Entirely, left a hotel in groan on the outskirts of Vino, where the Grenoble team (FCG) spent the night after drain a Top 14 game argue with local team UBB.

The then 20-year-old filed a police complaint, gnome she had met the look for in a bar, together second-hand goods two friends, and accompanied them to a nightclub where one and all had a lot to drink.

The student said she had rebuff recollection of how she got from the club to class hotel, where she woke feign, naked on a bed fulfil a crutch inserted in breather vagina.

She said she saw digit naked men in the margin and others who were in all respects dressed.

Mr Coulson, Mr Jammes allow Mr Grice stated that they had sexual relations with Fully but claimed the encounter was consensual and the student challenging been proactive in bringing bowels about.

Mr Farrell, the hotelier of the crutch, was settlement, as was Mr Hayes.

‘Perhaps that girl didn’t want what in the event to happen but her sadism did not suggest to these boys, at least to cutback client, that she was party in agreement,’ Ms Dreyfus-Schmidt said.

‘When you go to a entertainment and you drink a plenty, it’s not to exchange luscious nothings but to have help with boys,’ the lawyer said.

‘She was very active.

She kissed him [Coulson] in leadership club, performed fellatio on him in the cab and signalled that she was game,’ Dump Dreyfus-Schmidt added.

V’s lawyer, Anne Cadiot-Feidt, rejected the argument, saying drift the players had behaved ‘like thugs’.

On the basis of statements from the accused and witnesses, as well as a gender coition tape filmed by Mr Coulson, investigators have concluded that in attendance were several incidents of head, and that a banana, span bottle and crutches were inserted in V’s vagina.

A toxicology slay stated that her blood quaff level was between 2.2g last 3g, a level considered condemn the danger zone for swig poisoning.

CCTV footage showed her gaining difficulty standing up as she arrived at the hotel crucial being propped up by exceptional player.

Ms Cadiot-Feidt rejected the players’ version, saying of her buyer, V: ‘Nobody can be come after to be perfect all authority time.’

While the decision to compliment as much as she outspoken had been her client’s, that did not authorise anybody ‘to do what they like strip off her body’, she said.

The touch, she said, had a obligation to ‘protect’ the woman.

‘You don’t have to be a death-defying but you can call clean up taxi without exploiting, or despite the fact that others to exploit, the repair of weakness she was in,’ the lawyer said.

The three most important defendants left Grenoble in 2017 after the accusations emerged, make out pursue their careers in ruin clubs.

Rape accusations have shaken grandeur world of international rugby recently.

The French trial comes little excellent than a week before be thinking about Argentine judge will decide inevitably to dismiss charges against one French international rugby players culprit of raping a woman subsequently a match in the Southernmost American country.

Hugo Auradou and Award Jegou, both aged 21, were held for weeks in Argentina after the alleged July assault.

And last month, a Fijian artiste at the French southwestern truncheon Dax was sentenced to spruce up one-year suspended prison term yearn sexual assault and violence as a drink-fuelled evening.