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The Guardian - UK
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Gerard Meagher

Bridlington RUFC president banned for three years for undoing female employee’s bra

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A player catches a rugby ball
An independent panel described Neil Arton’s behaviour as ‘persistent, deliberate [and] designed to humiliate’. Photograph: Franck Fife/AFP/Getty Images

The president of Bridlington RUFC has been banned for three years after he was charged with “repeatedly pulling a female employee’s bra, causing it to become undone in front of other members of the club” at a fundraising event.

Neil Arton was found guilty of conduct prejudicial to the game by an independent panel at a Rugby Football Union disciplinary hearing in July. The panel banned Arton from “attending or being a member of any RFU-affiliated rugby club” for three years, one suspended, and ordered him to pay £125 in costs.

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