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Three bouncers found guilty of brutal attack on Shane Williams and his brother

Shane Williams

Three bouncers have been found guilty of a brutal attack on Welsh legend Shane Williams and his brother.

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Williams’ brother – Dean – was left unconscious following a sustained attack in which he was punched multiple times in the head.

Dean Flowers (32) with an address at Thornhill, Cardiff; Dave Wing (53) of Grangetown, Cardiff and Aled James (26) of Ferndale, Rhondda were found guilty of the Cardiff attack in the alleyway outside the Coyote Ugly bar in the city centre.

Williams and his brother were among a party of people celebrating a Welsh win over South Africa on December 2. The court heard that a stranger had attempted to headbutt Shane Williams’ as the star posed for selfies with members of the public.

Cardiff Crown Court was shown CCTV footage of the incident where the bouncers in question could be seen man-handling the group out of the pub before assaulting them in the street. One of the bouncers could be seen choking Dean Williams until he passed out in the street.

The footage also showed a number of the men laughing and joking as they returned to the nightclub bar.

Judge Duncan Bould described the attack as an incident of “serious public disorder.”

A fourth bouncer was cleared of affray by the jury.

Williams is Wales’ leading try scorer and was in November 2016 inducted into the World Rugby Hall of Fame.

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Soliloquin 1 hour ago
Competing interests and rotated squads: What the 'player welfare summer' is really telling us

I don’t know the financial story behind the changes that were implemented, but I guess clubs started to lose money, Mourad Boudjellal won it all with Toulon, got tired and wanted to invest in football , the French national team was at its lowest with the QF humiliation in 2015 and the FFR needed to transform the model where no French talent could thrive. Interestingly enough, the JIFF rule came in during the 2009/2010 season, so before the Toulon dynasty, but it was only 40% of the players that to be from trained in French academies. But the crops came a few years later, when they passed it at the current level of 70%.

Again, I’m not a huge fan of under 18 players being scouted and signed. I’d rather have French clubs create sub-academies in French territories like Wallis and Futuna, New Caledonia and other places that are culturally closer to RU and geographically closer to rugby lands. Mauvaka, Moefana, Taofifenua bros, Tolofua bros, Falatea - they all came to mainland after starting their rugby adventure back home.

They’re French, they come from economically struggling areas, and rugby can help locally, instead of lumping foreign talents.

And even though many national teams benefit from their players training and playing in France, there are cases where they could avoid trying to get them in the French national team (Tatafu).

In other cases, I feel less shame when the country doesn’t believe in the player like in Meafou’s case.

And there are players that never consider switching to the French national team like Niniashvili, Merckler or even Capuozzo, who is French and doesn’t really speak Italian.

We’ll see with Jacques Willis 🥲


But hey, it’s nothing new to Australia and NZ with PI!

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