Former Scotland rugby captain given community payback and non-harassment orders for domestic abuse
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Former Scotland rugby captain Stuart Hogg has been handed a community payback order and non-harassment order for abusing his estranged wife over the course of five years. Hogg, 32, last year pleaded guilty to a single charge of domestic abuse of his ex-partner, Gillian Hogg, between 2019 and 2024.
The sportsman admitted shouting and swearing, tracking her movements and sending her messages which were alarming and distressing in nature. He was given a community payback order with one year of supervision and a second five-year non-harassment order.
A court heard how he berated Mrs Hogg for "not being fun" after going on drinking binges with his colleagues, and once sent more than 200 text messages to her in the space of a few hours which caused her to suffer a panic attack. Hogg had been due to stand trial at Selkirk Sheriff Court last November, but pleaded guilty to the abuse which was said to have taken place at various locations including Hawick in the Scottish Borders and Bearsden in East Dunbartonshire.
At Jedburgh Sheriff Court in December, he was handed his first five-year non-harassment order and fined £600 for breaching bail conditions by repeatedly contacting Mrs Hogg last June. The former Glasgow Warriors and Exeter Chiefs, who plays for French club Montpellier, now lives abroad and is said to be in the process of a divorce.
