Ex-Wolves and Nottingham Forest star sentenced to eight and a half years in prison | OneFootball

Former Wolverhampton Wanderers and Nottingham Forest striker Rafa Mir is set for a lengthy stay behind bars

A player who made 13 combined Championship appearances for Wolves and Nottingham Forest has received an eight-and-a-half year prison sentence in a huge new development.

The two clubs have endured contrasting trajectories in recent times, and while ex-Wolves boss Vitor Pereira guided Forest to a UEFA Europa League semi-final last season following his dismissal from Molineux, the Old Gold's eight-year stay in the Premier League came to a crashing end as Rob Edwards' side suffered relegation with a whimper.

Indeed, Edwards himself has since been handed his marching orders from the Black Country outfit in a stunning twist by controversial owners Fosun, who are poised to seal the appointment of Cesar Peixoto as they plot an instant return to the top-flight.

Away from the pitch, however, an individual who featured for Wolves during the club's last Championship campaign - in which they romped to the league title under Nuno Espirito Santo in the 2017/18 campaign - has just received a lengthy jail sentence, having been brought to justice for a shocking incident that took place three years after his exit from the West Midlands.

Ex-Wolves and Nottingham Forest striker Rafa Mir receives eight-and-a-half year prison sentence

The player in question is Rafa Mir, who joined Wolves from Valencia back in 2018 and featured sparingly in the second-half of the club's title-winning campaign before returning to the Championship during a brief and goalless spell with Nottingham Forest in 2019/20.

Mir left Wolves permanently to join Sevilla in the summer of 2021 following a productive loan stay at SD Huesca.

The Spanish striker is now preparing for more than eight years behind bars, though, after recently being convicted of a violent sexual assault while on loan at Valencia in 2024.

Court proceedings have been going on for some time, and back in March, it was reported that Mir could be facing up to ten years in prison.

Last month, meanwhile, the 28-year-old - who spent the entirety of the previous campaign on loan with Elche and continued to feature despite the severity of the case - is said to have pleaded innocence.

Ultimately, however, Mir has since been found guilty, with reports revealing that the forward has been handed a seven-year sentence for violent assault of a woman he met at a nightclub alongside an additional 18 months in jail for assault.

Three judges decided on an eight-and-a-half year sentence for Mir, who has also been sanctioned with a 13-year restraining order prohibiting him from going within 500 metres of his victim while being forced to pay more than £55,000 in damages.

Meanwhile, footballer Pablo Jara has received a two-year sentence for sexual assault and a five-year restraining order.

What has been said about Rafa Mir's case as prison sentence received

Last month, Mir's victim described the shocking ordeal in court. The woman recalled how she met Mir and Jara in the VIP area of Valencia's Mya nightclub before heading to the ex-Wolves striker's home with a friend.

It was then recounted that Mir initially assaulted the victim in his swimming pool before proceeding to take her into the bathroom, locking the door when she tried to leave.

The victim explained: "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."