Photo / Getty ImagesRory Grice, in action for the All Blacks Sevens, in 2010. Photo / Getty ImagesTwo New Zealanders are among a group of five rugby players that were sent to trial overnight in connection with the alleged gang rape of a young woman in France in 2017. Grice, Jammes and Coulson have denied rape allegations facing them and claim any contact they had with their accuser, a 21-year-old student, was consensual. The players subsequently appealed that decision to the Bordeaux Court of Appeal which upheld the referral of the case to the Assises Court, which is a criminal trial court. According to reports at the time, the woman claimed she was drugged and raped by three players while two others failed to intervene.

Source: New Zealand Herald September 28, 2022 06:29 UTC