France prop Haouas given jail sentence for hitting wife

Haouas was sent disconnected successful his lone Six Nations quality for France for headbutting and banned for the remainder of the tournament

France prop Mohamed Haouas has been sentenced to 1 twelvemonth successful jailhouse for home abuse.

The incidental is apt to extremity immoderate hopes Montpellier's Haouas had of being picked for September's World Cup, taking spot successful France.

Haouas volition motorboat an entreaty and truthful remains escaped successful the meantime, oregon could deterioration an physics tag.

On hitting his woman successful public, the 29-year-old told the court: "She has the close to fume but the occupation is that she lied to me.

"I said to myself that if she tin prevarication astir the cigarette, she could prevarication astir different things."

The France international, who has 16 caps, was banned successful March for 4 weeks aft headbutting Scotland's Ben White successful the Six Nations.

It was his 2nd sending-off against Scotland successful 3 years, aft helium punched Jamie Ritchie successful 2020.

This is not Haouas' archetypal brushwood with the law, having been handed an 18-month suspended condemnation successful 2022 for his relation successful a bid of burglaries successful 2014.

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