Retired since 2012, Byron Kelleher is talking about him again far from the rugby fields. The Parisian noted that the former New Zealand scrum half (47 years old) must be tried this Monday in Paris for violence committed against the mother of his eight-year-old son.
On June 24, 2023, after an evening, the ex-player of Stade Toulousain and Stade Français allegedly grabbed his then partner by the hair then dragged him into the hallway of the apartment, after she took refuge in a bathroom. A medical certificate will attest to a cervical lesion and several hematomas.
His ex-partner recalls several scenes of violence
When she filed a complaint at the police station, the thirty-year-old indicated that it was not the first time that Kelleher had been “verbally and physically violent” with her, over the course of a tumultuous relationship that began in 2010 and punctuated by a long period of separation. The young woman also reported insults and punches, against a backdrop of her former partner’s alcoholism. In February 2023, in particular, the local police had to intervene during a violent altercation that occurred in Mauritius.
Placed in police custody on October 16, Kelleher admits to the quarrels but denies the violence and any possible problem with alcohol. In March 2017, the double French champion (2008, 2011) and winner of the 2010 European Cup with Toulouse was however fined 200 euros for domestic violence, committed in June 2016 in the Pink City while he was in a state of intoxication.