The woman, who was a student at the time, reported the incident to police within hours of leaving the hotel. Coulson, Jammes and Grice were twice questioned by police, and placed under formal investigation a month later. They were charged and sent to trial in June 2019, but appealed the decision.

A French court Friday jailed three rugby players formerly with French side Grenoble for 12 to 14 years over the 2017 gang rape of a student after a drunken night out.

Former Ireland U20 rugby international Denis Coulson has been sentenced to 14 years in prison after he was found guilty of the rape of a woman in Bordeaux, France, in 2017. Dublin-born Coulson, who also played for Connacht and French side Stade Français ...

Former Ireland U-20 player Denis Coulson has been found guilty of the rape of a woman in 2017. He was sentenced to 14 years in jail in a Bordeaux courtroom on Friday evening. Former Ireland and Munster star Chris Farrell was sentenced to four years, with two years suspended for his ‘failure to prevent a crime’ .

Former Irish rugby player Denis Coulson has been sentenced by a court in France to 14 years in prison after being found guilty of raping a woman in ­Bordeaux in 2017.

Dublin-born Coulson was one of three former FC Grenoble rugby players accused of the gang rape of a 20-year-old woman after a match in Bordeaux in March 2017