The former Australian captain is fighting to clear his name after being sentenced to five years jail in France over his time in charge of a famous rugby club.
The former Wallabies captain had decided it was best he wasn’t waiting for the gardai, as Ireland’s police force is known, when they turned up to execute a European arrest warrant and extradite him to France.
The most he is prepared to offer about his location is that he’s no longer in Ireland, where he had been coaching at a school for the previous six weeks.“All I can say is I spoke to the gardai and they said if I’m in Ireland they’ll have to bring me in,” Elsom said. “So I told them I wasn’t in Ireland and I wasn’t going to be in Ireland any time soon.”
Highly recognisable, Elsom is laying low while he engages a French lawyer to oppose the finding against him in the criminal court in Narbonne, where a hearing has been scheduled for November 15. The address listed as his home on the court’s written judgment, seen by this masthead, is 87 Epsom Road, Rosebery. It is the site of a Sydney storage company where he has had items sent, but he said it did not forward on mail.
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