Peter Jackson on Monday: Truck and Trailer: Pape set to miss rest of Six Nations

Pascal Pape will be formally charged today over an incident which threatens to bring his Six Nations’ campaign to an abrupt end.

Retrospective justice is better than no justice at all but a poor substitute for the weekend failure of those responsible to have imposed law and order on the spot at the scene of the crime.

Wayne Barnes let Pape off with a soft yellow instead of a straight red. The English ref, a barrister by profession whose areas of practice include serious and complex fraud and bribery and corruption, was not the only official at the centre of controversy.