UK’s Home Office, which directs migration, security and peace, affirmed to the Herald that Budgen showed up at the Westminster Magistrates’ Court on December 2, where he assented to his removal to New Zealand.
“The District Judge accordingly sent the case to the Home Secretary to conclude whether to arrange removal,” a representative from the division told the Herald.
“The Home Secretary has two months from the date the case was shipped off her in which to settle on her choice.”
Budgen, 47, a spear corporal in the Royal Welsh Regiment, is blamed for assaulting the lady when he was 18 on the day he played a rugby coordinate in Rotorua.
Police took DNA tests at that point, however couldn’t make a match and the Mirror announced that police additionally went to the UK to take a further example in 2015 after cutting edge testing hailed up a possible connection.
Budgen, who was brought into the world in New Zealand, had served in the NZ Defense Force prior to moving to the UK during the 1990s.
There, he presented with the Royal Welsh regiment in Northern Ireland, Iraq and Afghanistan.
Budgen likewise played proficient rugby with the Northampton Saints and was a critical individual from the Exeter Chiefs’ effective 2010 RFU Championship side.
He turned into the most seasoned attempt scorer in Premiership rugby history in 2012 when he scored for Exeter Chiefs 78 days shy of his 40th birthday celebration.
Budgen resigned from proficient rugby in 2014.
The Mirror revealed that he was held by Scotland Yard’s Extradition Unit at his Hampshire encampment in December.
As a component of his bail conditions, he made a deal to avoid going to any worldwide travel center and should answer to a police headquarters each end of the week.
-NZHerald
