Former All Black Mils Muliaina appears to have had raw treatment from Welsh police. For six months he waited to answer a charge of sexual assault in a Cardiff night club after a rugby match. The circumstances of his arrest were bizarre.
The incident in which a young woman's bottom was touched in the crowded night club allegedly happened on March 7, but police waited until the following month when his Irish club, Connacht, came to play Gloucester, just across the border from Wales.
They swooped on him after the match, taking him away in his tracksuit under the glare of the television cameras that had covered the match.
When first pulled aside he thought it was for a routine drugs test. Instead he was arrested, charged and spent the night in custody.
It seemed odd at the time and it seems even more odd now. For when the case was called in the Cardiff Crown Court this week, he pleaded not guilty and the prosecution called no evidence.