Rugby star Booth ‘exposed himself’

RUGBY star Gareth Thomas told a French court yesterday how a former team-mate stripped off in a bar, stood on a table and exhibited his genitals.

The Wales captain and three other former Bridgend RFC players are facing magistrates in Pau, France, accused of the equivalent of violent affray. Thomas, 31, Andy Moore, 31, former coach Richard Webster, 38, and Phil Booth, 29, were at the El Barrio nightclub in Lescar, near Pau, three years ago after Bridgend had lost to Pau in a cup clash.

Magistrates today heard Booth drunkenly exhibited himself while standing on the bar downstairs in the club before being pulled down by team-mates.