Foxes stars face sex assault charges

Three Leicester City players have been remanded in custody by an investigating judge probing an alleged assault on three women in a Spanish hotel, court officials in Cartagena said today.

Keith Gillespie, Paul Dickov and Frank Sinclair are facing charges of forced entry and sexual assault.

Three others – Matt Elliott, Lilian Nalis and James Scowcroft – have been released, but Scowcroft has been ordered to pay €20,000 bail and to attend a Spanish consulate twice a month.

The players were alleged to have been involved in an incident in which a group of men barged into a hotel room in the La Manga resort and attacked the women, leaving them with multiple injuries.

At a press conference in Leicester this morning, the Premiership club’s chief operations manager, Paul Mace, said: “The players wish me to stress to you … that they protest their innocence most strongly.”

But he announced that the allegations were viewed with the “utmost seriousness” and “no stone would be left unturned”.

He said a “full internal investigation” would take place.

All six players, who were training in La Manga, were arrested earlier this week.