Montpellier player made MBE in new year honours list previously pleaded guilty to domestic abuse of ex-partner Gillian Hogg

The rugby star would regularly shout and swear at his former partner in the family home, using particularly offensive language and criticising her for not being ‘fun’.

Stuart Hogg, the former Scotland captain, received a one-year community payback order for abusing his wife, in a sentence dismissed as a mere “slap on the wrist” by leading women’s groups.

Sheriff Peter Paterson sentenced Hogg to a community payback order with one year of supervision and a second five-year non-harassment order when he appeared at Selkirk Sheriff Court on Thursday.

A former Scotland rugby captain has been today charged for domestic abuse offences. Stuart Hogg, who made his debut for Glasgow Warriors in 2011, was given a community payback order and a five-year non-harassment order for the offences - which took place in the Scottish Borders and Devon area of England - against his ex-partner,