Police 調査／捜査する rugby match gouging 出来事/事件 which left player blind in one 注目する，もくろむ

By Daily Mail Reporter
Updated: 09:00 BST, 31 January 2010

A gouging 出来事/事件 which left an amateur rugby player blind in one 注目する，もくろむ was 存在 調査／捜査するd by police today.

Blues fan Clarence Hardi ng （人命などを）奪う，主張するd he felt a finger in his 注目する，もくろむ as he lay on the ground during a game and 外科医s were later unable to save his sight.

Clarence, 26, was playing in a cup 衝突／不一致 between 地元の 競争相手s in Kent when the number-eight was left in agony.

Rough sport: Clarence Harding lost sight in his 権利 注目する，もくろむ

Mr Harding, who was playing number eight, said: 'I was on the 床に打ち倒す 現在のing the ball for my team-mates when I felt a finger sticking into the corner of my 注目する，もくろむ.

'It was over in an instant but it 夜明けd on me very quickly that something pretty serious had happened. The ball was nowhere 近づく my 長，率いる at the time.'

His family branded it an 'intentional and vicious attack'.

His father Charles said: 'He purposefully tried to 負傷させる our son.'

The family may consider 告訴するing 対立 team Maidstone who hosted the match at their ground at Mote Park.

The game continued after Clarence was taken off 負傷させるd while his team, Gravesend, went on to （人命などを）奪う，主張する victory with a 41-5 scoreline.

The singer and guitarist 述べるd it as a 'horrific time' and took to Facebook from his hospital bed to thank friends for supporting him.

Gravesend RFC chairman Graham Haggar said pictures taken during the 衝突／不一致 on January 17 were 存在 診察するd and said no-one had 苦しむd such a serious 傷害 in the club's history.

He said: 'We are 深く，強烈に 関心d about the horrendous 傷害 苦しむd by Clarence that has led to him losing the sight in one 注目する，もくろむ.

'Since the club was 設立するd more than 100 years ago, no Gravesend player has ever 苦しむd an 傷害 of this 肉親，親類d.

'We are anxious to co-operate with any 調査 to 設立する what happened in the match and we will support our player and his family in any way we can.'

Mr Haggar said any player 設立する to have committed 注目する，もくろむ-gouging should be banned from rugby for life and '直面する the 十分な 負わせる of the 犯罪の 法律'.

A Kent Police spokeswoman said: 'Police are 調査／捜査するing an 出来事/事件 of grievous bodily 害（を与える） where a 26-year-old man 支えるd a serious 傷害 to his 注目する，もくろむ に引き続いて a rugby match in Maidstone on January 17.

'The 出来事/事件 occurred at the sports field at Mote Park at around 2.40pm.'