The Daily Mail reports:
England rugby manager Martin Johnson publicly admonished three players after they taunted and made lecherous remarks to a woman hotel worker.
Annabel Newton said she was left in tears after the trio stole her work walkie-talkie and took it to a room – then made crude sexual comments and videoed her when she was forced to retrieve it.
A subsequent apology forced out of the players – James Haskell, 26, Dylan Hartley, 25, and Chris Ashton, 24 – was insincere, she said, and she ended up being taken off work duties involving the England team.
Johnson yesterday told a press conference: ‘I was angry with them. They apologised when they realised they had stepped over the mark. They have been reprimanded for their behaviour. It drags us all into it and that is what makes me particularly angry.’
Miss Newton said she was working at the England team’s hotel in Dunedin early last month and was specially assigned to attend to the players’ needs.
She said team members had already joked about stealing her walkie-talkie when it disappeared from the top of the catering trolley she was wheeling.
She said the players were making crude remarks over the radio link and she was later directed to Haskell’s room.
‘I’m just 5ft 1in tall, and these guys towered over me,’ she said. ‘They were the tallest guys I have ever seen. I remember saying, “Please, give me the radio, I have to get snacks and let the kitchen know what food to prepare”.
Then they got out a video camera and started to film me. I tried to hide my face, saying I’m working.’ She said Haskell, 26, then shouted out a crude remark about a sex act.
I think Johnson's comments about "they had stepped over the mark" understate the situation.
Is Johnson going to give them any punishment apart from his public criticism of them?
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