Gang rape by rugby players: between 12 and 14 years requested against the main accused during their trial

Sentences of 12 to 14 years in prison were requested on Thursday for three former Grenoble rugby players tried in Bordeaux for the rape of a young woman in 2017 after a Top 14 match.

The attorney general demanded 14 years for the Irishman Denis Coulson and the Frenchman Loïck Jammes, 12 years for the New Zealander Rory Grice, while gang rape is punishable by 20 years in prison. All plead the consent of the victim, aged 20 at the time of the events.

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On March 12, 2017, she left in tears a hotel in Mérignac, on the outskirts of Bordeaux, where the Grenoble team had spent the night after a Top 14 match lost against Union Bordeaux-Bègles.

Night of horror

She filed a complaint, stating that she had met FCG players in a bar and followed them to a nightclub, where alcohol flowed freely, without remembering what happened next. She woke up the next morning, naked on a bed with a crutch in her vagina, surrounded by two naked men and others who were dressed.

A four-year prison sentence was requested against Irishman Chris Farrell (31 years old), tried for “failure to prevent a crime” alongside New Zealander Dylan Hayes (40 years old), for whom the attorney general requested a two-year sentence, one of which was suspended. The justice system accuses them of having witnessed all or part of the alleged rape without intervening.