The domestic abuse perpetrated by former Scotland rugby union captain Stuart Hogg against his estranged wife is “incredibly disappointing”, John Swinney has said.
The First Minister also described calls for his MBE to be stripped as “reasonable and understandable”.Hogg was sentenced to a community payback order with one year of supervision after he admitted abusing his ex-partner, Gillian Hogg, over the course of five years.
The sentencing came on Thursday at Selkirk Sheriff Court after Hogg, 32, pleaded guilty to a single charge of domestic abuse in November.
He admitted shouting and swearing, tracking her movements and sending her messages which were alarming and distressing in nature.
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