Stuart Hogg has been sentenced to a community payback order after pleading gulity to abusing his estranged wife over a period of five years.

The former Scotland captain admitted a single charge of domestic abuse back in November and was sentenced at Selkirk Sheriff Court on Thursday morning.

He received a community payback order, which also came with one year of supervision and a five-year non-harassment order against his estranged wife.

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