The victim was not in court.<\/p>\n
Early on March 12, 2017, the student, identified only as V, was in tears as she left a hotel on the outskirts of Bordeaux, where the Grenoble team spent the night after losing a Top 14 game against local side Bordeaux-Begles.<\/p>\n
V filed a complaint with police, saying she had met the players in a bar together with two friends and accompanied them to a nightclub where all of them drank heavily.<\/p>\n
Rory Grice played for Waikato in 2013. Photo \/ Photosport<\/p>\n
The student said she had no recollection of how she got from the club to the hotel where she woke up, naked on a bed and with a crutch inserted in her vagina.<\/p>\n
She saw two naked men in the room and others fully dressed.<\/p>\n
Coulson, Jammes and Grice stated that they had sexual relations with V, but claimed the encounter was consensual and the student had been pro-active in bringing it about.<\/p>\n
The lawyers for the three said they will appeal to the Court of Cassation, the highest court in the French judicial system.<\/p>\n
Coulson\u2019s lawyer said they were stunned by a \u201crepetition of an excessive and disproportionate punishment\u201d.<\/p>\n
Jammes\u2019 lawyer Denis Dreyfus said they had been punished for not having confessed.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf this is how the appeals process is conceived, it\u2019s frightening,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
During the proceedings, as in the original trial, the defendants maintained that the act was consensual, relying on a video filmed by one of them.<\/p>\n
The victim\u2019s lawyer said they were relieved and described the ordeal as \u201ca terrible journey, marked by repeated setbacks\u201d.<\/p>\n
Two other teammates, who witnessed the scene without intervening, Irishman Chris Farrell and New Zealander Dylan Hayes, did not appeal their convictions.<\/p>\n
Farrell had been sentenced to four years in prison, two of which were suspended, and Hayes received a two-year suspended term.<\/p>\n
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