Rafa Mir sentenced to 8½ years for sexual assault and bodily harm

Spanish footballer Rafa Mir has been sentenced to eight and a half years in prison and ordered to pay €64,000 ($74,000) in compensation after being convicted of sexually assaulting a young woman. Mir insists he is innocent.

A court in Spain has sentenced Spanish forward Rafa Mir to eight and-a-half years of prison for having sexually assaulted two women along with another soccer player. A lower court in the region of Valencia ruled Monday that Mir and the other player had sexually assaulted the two women in 2024 in Mir’s home in the city of Valencia, where at that time he was playing for the eponymous soccer club. The court handed Mir seven years for sexual assault and another 18 months for causing physical harm.

Sevilla striker Rafa Mir has been sentenced to eight-and-a-half years in prison after being convicted of sexual assault and bodily harm, the Valencian community High Court of Justice said Monday.A second defendant, a friend of the footballer, was also convicted, and sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison for a count of sexual assault and an offence "against moral integrity", in addition to a small fine for a minor offence of bodily harm.

The Fourth Section of the Provincial Court of Valencia has sentenced footballer Rafa Mir to eight and a half years in prison. The court found him guilty of sexual assault and bodily harm, as reported ...