Stuart Hogg slap on the wrist.

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Stuart Hogg (Scottish rugby player)
Was given a one year community payback order and £600 fine for subjecting his wife to five years of domestic abuse.
His first court appearance he was taken in the staff entrance and exit this was later found out if memory serves me right of his father pulling strings 'local court in the borders '.
Little rich kid getting special treatment and off lightly.🤮

Yep. He sounds like a right wee cvnt

I agree he was very lucky with the verdict, but hopefully he's utterly trashed his post-rugby employment opportunities.

His reputation is mud and everyone despises him. His current team are notorious for having zero morals about who they sign but he'd struggle to find another gig, and the fact that he's still dragging his aging body around suggests he's maybe not that financially set.

What a horror show of a man.

The fine was for breach of bail conditions.
Sorry I don't know how to link it was on BBC Scotland site.
At one point he was messaging 200 time's in a day.

Absolutely. It stinks. “No
point in interrupting his career”…said the judge. Shocking.
His MBE needs to go for starters.

so he has to keep away from her. Again. Like last time, when he didn't.

Yet again demonstrating that women are always at the back of the queue. For everything.

How can we make the point about cunty old judges giving violent and oafish men preferential treatment? We need a movement for women that runs like Led by Donkeys so we can put billboards of the judges and their statements up outside courts.

BBC News - Stuart Hogg given payback order for domestic abuse
www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj0r0jv9114o

Absolutely abhorrent. He's proven he can't be trusted to not harass her. Absolute scum.

Absolutely. It stinks. “No
point in interrupting his career”…said the judge.

Well there isn't is there - at his age he does not have long left as a professional rugby player and his children would suffer financially if it was to end now.

I used to be a rugby fan and season ticket holder for Glasgow warriors.

I used to think Stuart Hogg was brilliant.

Then there was the Ulster rape trial which I followed in detail, reading the daily court transcripts. That was an horrendous travesty of justice. After that I was so disillusioned with rugby and rugby players I gave up my season ticket and I've not really watched a match since.

But I certainly wasn't prepared for the revelations about Hogg and his truly obnoxious, appalling behaviour.

I hope they take his MBE away.

It doesn't surprise me at all. The legal system does not provide justice for women, especially when a partner or ex partner is involved. Even if they manage to get a guilty verdict, after months of stress, repeatedly having to go through every detail of what happened to them with strangers and being called a liar by the defense, they face the defendant walking away with a suspended sentence.

This is the case that made me accept that the system is broken.

https://metro.co.uk/2019/12/24/rugby-player-strangled-girlfriend-put-hand-throat-spared-jail-11957551/

The judge said he was giving the man ‘one chance’ and the ‘benefit of the doubt.’

Benefit of the doubt!!
Look at the state of her face.
What planet are these judges on,I think most sportsmen up for this type of offences get very favourable outcomes.

Disgusting.

I hope they take away his MBE.

The appalling sentence is not a surprise.

Horrific What a POS.

A shameless bump as Mnetters outside Of Scotland may not have saw this on the news.
Men like Hogg deserve to be known for what they are.

Agree it's disgusting, and yes they should take his MBE away.

Unused to be Hoggy's biggest fan - yet another abuser who pulled the wool over everyone's eyes.

Sadly it's not just the judge.

I recently sat on a duty in a domestic abuse case - the attitude of some of the jurors was very "interesting" for the want of a better word and that has really affected me.

Very few, it seems, understand domestic abuse. In some ways, I'm glad as it means they haven't experienced it, but the real lack of empathy, was really eye opening and upsetting.

it is up to the judge to direct the jurors.

And it is absolutely up to the judge not to give the same non-sentence that was ineffective the first time.

That's not strictly true. The jurors are the ones responsible to determine whether someone is guilty or not - that's not the judges role. The judge can (and did in our case) tell you the legal definition of the charge. He said, more than once, the jurors are the judge of the evidence and he is the judge of the law - two very distinct and different roles.

And it's our own life experiences that give us our opinions when weighing up the evidence. The 15 jurors in the case I was on the jury for all interpreted the same evidence very differently.

It really opened my eyes to see how poorly domestic abuse is actually understood by people. And that makes it very difficult to convict.

I do agree with you about the sentencing though. That's very much the judges role.

We need a movement for women that runs like Led by Donkeys so we can put billboards of the judges and their statements up outside courts

This is a bloody good idea!

Disgusting man and I also hope his post rugby career is trashed. The sentence is disgraceful.

imagine having a father like this - what example is he going to be setting to his kids? He has completely and utterly failed them.

I read this appalling article this morning

Barely a mention of his ex wife who endured horrific abuse

Poor misunderstood Hogg

Having honours taken away (forfeiture) - GOV.UK

Yes. It completely fails to mention all of the times he's said he's going to change and hasn't - not likely to happen now.

Even worse imo, the pathetic public statements over the years where he blamed everyone and everything. Oh it's the fans, oh it's social media, oh it's the press. No, it's you.

"I'm retiring because my body is gubbed and I want to be able to play football with my son", he said. Translation: it's all about to come out in the press that I've been shagging about and abusing my wife, I'm fucking off to France and god knows when I'll bother to see my children.

By all accounts, every club he's ever been part of has had a better dressing room atmosphere after he left. No doubt the same with his personal relationships. No-one in Hawick was at all surprised.

The treatment of women and children in the UK in general is appalling. Add the Borders (some years ago I lived in the Borders & had a problem. I wasn't local. I approached my SNP MSP & my local MP. I also spoke to the National legal body who dealt with this area. They all said that the Borders 'dances to its own drum' & I was best to move.
I'd be surprised if Hogg isn't given local recognition in some way in the future.

Former Scotland rugby captain Stuart Hogg stripped of MBE - BBC News