Irish rugby players trial by jury
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French court jails 3 rugby players for 12 to 14 years over gang rape
Irishman Denis Coulson, 30, and Frenchman Loick Jammes, 30, were both sentenced to 14 years behind bars and New Zealander Rory Grice, 34, received 12 for the 2017 gang rape of a student at a Bordeaux area hotel.
A court in France on Friday, December 13, jailed three rugby players formerly with French side Grenoble for 12 to 14 years over the 2017 gang rape of a student.
It sentenced Irishman Denis Coulson, 30, and Frenchman Loick Jammes, 30, to 14 years behind bars, and New Zealander Rory Grice, 34, to 12 years in jail.
It handed four years in jail, including two suspended, to ex-Ireland international 31-year-old Chris Farrel over failure to prevent the crime. New Zealander Dylan Hayes, 30, received a two-year suspended sentence, also for not intervening to stop it.
In the small hours of March 12, 2017, the student, identified only as V., was in tears as she left a hotel on the outskirts of Bordeaux, where
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Paddy Jackson
Irish rugby union player
Rugby player
David Patrick Lindsay James "Paddy" Jackson (born 5 January 1992) is a professional rugby union player from Northern Ireland who plays for Lyon OU; in the Top 14, in France. He primarily plays at fly-half and previously played for Irish provincial club Ulster in the Pro12, as well as for French club Perpignan and most recently Gallagher Premiership side London Irish.
Jackson captained the Ireland under-20 team and won 25 senior caps for Ireland between 2013 and 2017.
In 2017 Jackson was charged with rape, and in 2018 he was tried and acquitted. Following the trial and the publication of related derogatory text messages sent by Jackson, the Irish Rugby Football Union revoked his Ireland and Ulster contracts.
Early life
[edit]Jackson's family lived in Birmingham[2] for a time but returned to Belfast while Paddy was still of primary school age. He left school with three A-level grades B, C and D, and
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Abstract
In 2018, Ireland and Ulster rugby players Paddy Jackson and Stuart Olding went to rättegång after being accused of sexual assault. The rättegång garnered much media attention in their hometown of Belfast due to the celebrity ställning eller tillstånd of both defendants. This study aims to assess the presence of rape myths and victim-blaming in the newspaper reporting of the Belfast’ rugby rape trial’. This is considered through two questions. These were: what rape myths were perpetuated about Jackson and Olding, and what rape myths were perpetuated about the victim? The research study uses quantitative and qualitative methods to use a mixed-method approach to content analysis. The database LexisNexis is used to obtain the newspaper articles with a sample of 178 articles from The Belfast Telegraph Online used for the första quantitative analysis. The search parameters were refined for a sista sample of 24 newspaper articles for qualitative analysis. Findings from the study show that the