The Namibia captain, Johan Deysel, has been given an effective five-match suspension for his dangerous tackle on Antoine Dupont that left the France skipper with a facial fracture and on the sidelines at the Rugby World Cup.
Deysel received a red card for the incident in France’s 96-0 win in Marseille last week, and later apologised having received online abuse. An Independent Judicial Committee have decided the tackle met the top end on the scale of seriousness, which is a 12-game suspension, but have also applied the maximum 50% reduction in sentence following his apology and previous good record.
