Lions rugby player in court over assault claim

On Monday morning, around 4am, I was at a friend’s house in Cape Town with a group of approximately eight to nine people after a night out,” he said.

“While there, I was accused by an individual named Bronson Mills of stealing salmon from the refrigerator. I did not plan on stealing the fish, and I told him that directly.”

Selane alleged that the situation escalated into a violent attack.

Bronson became extremely aggressive. He dragged me out of the house, verbally abused me, and physically assaulted me,” he claimed.

“He punched me multiple times in the face, threw me to the ground, and kicked me while swearing and shouting. I repeatedly told him to stop and apologised out of fear for my safety.”

Selane listed his injuries from the scuffle as a black eye, a bruised forehead, blood in one eye, a swollen lip, cheek and jaw, and multiple cuts on his face, knees and wrists.

Selane claimed Mills was under the influence of drugs during the altercation.

“Bronson has a known history of violence and substance abuse, including cocaine use, and has assaulted others in the past under similar circumstances.

“On the night he attacked me, he was under the influence of cocaine and alcohol.”

Going away from this [Ireland-All Blacks] game and into disciplinary hearings, what’s happening with Jan-Hendrik Wessels at the moment,” Matfield said on the Rivals podcast.

“A player punched him in the game, he claims he grabbed him in a certain place, but there’s no evidence at all. He gets a nine-week ban, they go and appeal and he gets eight weeks without any evidence.

“How can that work in any court of law… anything? I just think whoever’s running the referees, whoever’s running the judicial process is failing the game at the moment.”