Overview
- A provincial court found Rafa Mir guilty of sexual assault and injuries and sentenced him to eight and a half years in prison while ordering €64,000 in compensation to the main complainant.
- The court also convicted Mir’s friend Pablo Jara and sentenced him to two years in prison and to pay €6,280 in damages to a second complainant.
- The written judgment explicitly questioned testimony from the Policía Local de Bétera and asked that the officers’ statements be investigated because they contradicted the victims’ accounts.
- Mir published a video saying he has filed a formal appeal and arguing that videos and other materials submitted during the case were not reflected in the sentence and deserve review by a higher court.
- Sporting and reputational fallout is immediate: Mir still has one year left on his Sevilla contract and was due to attend club medicals, but his on-field future is now constrained while the legal process proceeds.