The Spanish striker who played for Wolves and Nottingham Forest learned his fate in court on Monday, following his initial arrest in September 2024
Rafa Mir has been found guilty of committing sexual assault
Former Wolves and Nottingham Forest striker Rafa Mir has been sentenced to eight and a half years in prison after being found guilty of violent sexual assault and assault causing injury. The Provincial Court of Justice in Valencia confirmed his fate on Monday, following his initial arrest in 2024.
Mir had protested his innocence during a hearing at the end of May, with public prosecutors pushing for a ten‑and‑a‑half‑year term. The alleged offences took place in the early hours of September 1, 2024 with Mir meeting the victim hours earlier at a nightclub before taking her to his residence.
In their pre‑trial indictment, prosecutors alleged he ‘lifted her up in his arms and threw her into the pool with her clothes on’ before ‘grabbing her tightly and, with the intention of satisfying his lustful desires, began kissing her face and neck.’
The second assault is said to have occurred after the woman fled his house and phoned her father to collect her, only to realise she had left her handbag inside and returned to retrieve it.
The victim told the court: “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.”
Mir, 28, was first charged last October following a lengthy investigation triggered by his arrest in September 2024, when an examining judge ruled there was sufficient evidence for the case to proceed to trial. Mir has also been ordered to pay more than £55,000 in damages.
Court officials said at the time that he had been indicted for “sexual assault with penetration involving the use of violence.”
A spokesman for the force in Valencia said at the time of his arrest: “We can confirm a LaLiga footballer has been arrested over an alleged sexual assault.
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“No-one else has been arrested at the moment but that may change later. The man who has been detained is currently in police custody.”
Footballer Pablo Jara, was also arrested and charged over a separate sexual assault on a female friend of the unnamed victim. He was tried on Monday and received a two‑and‑a‑half‑year sentence.
Mir spent three years in the Premier League after joining Wolves in January 2018, though he made only four appearances for the club – none in the top flight – before heading out on a series of loan spells.
He featured 13 times for Nottingham Forest during the 2019/20 campaign. He then joined Huesca on loan for the following season and later completed a permanent move to Sevilla in 2021.
Over the past two years, however, Mir has again been out on loan, this time to Valencia and Elche.
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