Former Wolves and Nottingham Forest striker Rafa Mir has been sentenced to eight and a half years in prison after being found guilty of a violent sexual assault.
The Spanish footballer was given seven years in prison for the violent sexual assault of a woman he met at a nightclub. He also received an extra 18 months for assault.
Mir pleaded not guilty on May 28. Prosecutors had asked for a prison sentence of more than ten years.
However, the court found him guilty. Three judges sentenced him to eight and a half years in prison and also gave him a 13-year restraining order. This order stops him from going within 500 metres of the victim.
The former Wolves player has also been ordered to pay more than £55,000 in damages.
At the time, Mir was on loan at La Liga club Elche from Sevilla.
Another footballer, Pablo Jara, was sentenced to two years in prison for the sexual assault of a second woman. He was also ordered to stay away from the victim for five years.
During the trial in May, Mir’s victim told the court that she met Mir and Jara in the VIP section of Mya nightclub in Valencia.
She and a friend later went to Mir’s luxury home in the suburb of Bétera.
The woman said she did not know Mir was a footballer until they arrived at the house and she asked him what job he did.
The assault happened in the early hours of September 1, 2024, when Mir was playing for Valencia CF.
The victim said Mir first assaulted her in the swimming pool before taking her into a bathroom and locking the door when she tried to leave.
She told the court:
“He took me into the bathroom and locked the door.
“He started doing the same thing to me he had done at the swimming pool.”
“That’s when I started crying and telling him to stop, that I wanted to leave. He didn’t stop.”
She said she was frightened and trapped in the footballer’s arms.
The woman’s friend later found her in the bathroom having a panic attack.
Mir and Jara then reportedly forced the two women to leave the house, leaving one of them half naked outside.
The friend said Jara shouted at them to leave and called them “brats.”
She told the court:
“He pushed me, I fell to the ground, then I got up and he punched me, opened the door and took my towel.”
The footballers then threw the women’s belongings over a fence.
The women later managed to get a phone from a neighbour, and one of them called her father to come and pick them up.
Mir admitted that he had sexual relations with both women, but said the encounters were consensual.
The striker spent time on loan at Las Palmas and Nottingham Forest while he was a Wolves player. He left Wolves permanently in August 2021 after signing a six-year contract with Sevilla.
He returned to his boyhood club Valencia on loan in July 2024 before later joining Elche.
Reports say Mir was offered a plea bargain before the trial began, but he refused to accept it.
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