Valencia’s Rafa Mir gets 8½ year sentence for sexual assault

June 16, 2026
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Former Wolves and Nottingham Forest striker Rafa Mir has received an eight and-a-half year prison sentence by a court in Spain after being found guilty of sexual assault.

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