isaan.live — Previous Scotland rugby captain Stuart Hogg has begged guilty to a residential misuse charge versus his separated spouse.
Hogg confessed yelling and swearing and acting in a violent manner towards his spouse Gillian when he appeared at Selkirk Constable Court.
He also confessed consistently monitoring her movements and sending out messages of a worrying and upsetting nature.
The court listened to that the previous Hawick and Glasgow Warriors gamer, that was topped 100 times for Scotland, once sent out greater than 200 messages in a pair of hrs. Constable Peter Paterson deferred sentence until 5 December for history records.
Hogg, that presently plays for Montpellier in France, confessed a solitary charge which relates to duplicated violent behavior towards his currently separated spouse.
Over a five-year duration, up to August of this year, he participated in a program of conduct which triggered her fear or alarm system.
The court listened to how the 32-year-old regularly shouted and swore at his spouse while they resided in Hawick and Glasgow, as well as when they resided in Exeter while Hogg bet Exeter Chiefs.
At one point it triggered her to have a stress attack – and she eventually took advice from residential misuse solutions.
The charge also involved Hogg monitoring his wife’s movements through the Find My Telephone application after they had split up in 2023, and him sending out her sometimes numerous text in the space of a couple of hrs.
Sentence is deferred until 5 December, when a complete reduction will be provided by Hogg’s lawful group.
Constable Peter Paterson enabled him bond until that day to wait for records, consisting of a restriction of freedom evaluation.
The fullback retired from rugby union before last year’s World Mug having actually accumulated a century of elderly caps and been associated with 3 British and Irish Lions tours.
He remains among Scotland’s all-time prominent try markers and was granted an MBE in the 2024 New Year honours list for solutions to rugby union.
He came from retired life in the summer to sign a two-year contract with Montpellier.