Iain Henderson and Rory Best attended the trial of their Ulster team-mates Paddy Jackson and Stuart Olding last week PACEMAKER PRESSRory Best, the Ireland rugby captain, was instructed to attend the rape trial of two international team-mates by a senior counsel, a judge said yesterday. The jury heard he had been told by a senior barrister involved in the case to attend the trial of the Ulster players Paddy Jackson and Stuart Olding at Belfast crown court last week. Judge Patricia Smyth said: “The only reason that Mr Best was in this courtroom was because he was directed to be here by senior counsel. That’s the reason he was here. And as a jury, I think you should know that.”Referring to his attendance with a team-mate, Iain Henderson, she added that it may have been “hard”…

Source: The Times February 06, 2018 00:02 UTC