A person in Australia has been prosecuted for abusing TMO Brian MacNiece on social media throughout Enlgand’s match towards Samoa in final yr’s Rugby World Cup.
22-year-old Aaron Isaia pleaded responsible to utilizing carriage service to menace or harass through on-line communication after abusing MacNeice and his household over Fb.
World Rugby had tracked down the person and referred the case to the Australian authorities, they usually have one other 5 such instances at present ongoing.
As well as the governing physique confirmed they intend to take steps to cease him from buying tickets to future occasions.
“World Rugby welcomes this landmark consequence,” chief government Alan Gilpin stated.
“The vile and poisonous abuse is an all too widespread prevalence for a lot of sports activities women and men and public figures, and we hope that this sends a really robust message to on-line trolls that such behaviour is completely unacceptable and that the game and the authorities are ready to take motion.”
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