Welsh rugby star convicted of assaulting ex-girlfriend
Welsh international rugby star Ian Gough was today found guilty of attacking his ex-girlfriend, former Miss Wales Sophia Cahill, just days after she got engaged to pop star Dane Bowers.
Beauty queen Miss Cahill choked back tears as she told how Gough shoved her into the passenger door of his white VW campervan.
She said she was “shocked and upset” after the attack, which happened when Gough arrived more than an hour late for a meeting at her home on the evening January 5 this year.
Chairman of the bench Terry Carpenter told Croydon Magistrates Court the magistrates had found the evidence of Miss Cahill was “convincing” and backed up by Mr Bowers.
Giving evidence from behind a blue curtain, Miss Cahill had told the court: “I opened the passenger door and Ian just stormed around the front of the van.”
The mother-of-two went on: “He had the front of my shoulder and he just flung me back.”
She said Gough told her “Get away” as he attacked her.
And she said the attack made her existing whiplash injuries worse.
Miss Cahill and Another Level star Mr Bowers got engaged over the Christmas period shortly before the attack.
Mr Carpenter adjourned sentencing until August 24.
