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Henson set for police charge

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Wales and Ospreys centre Gavin Henson will be charged with disorderly conduct by the British Transport Police.

Wales and Lions centre will be charged after incident on train.

Wales and Ospreys centre Gavin Henson will be charged with disorderly conduct, the British Transport Police have revealed, over allegations of a drunken disturbance on a London to Cardiff train. Henson was one of four men involved in the incident on a train from London to Cardiff following Ospreys' 19-8 victory over Harlequins. A statement from the British Transport Police (BTP) confirmed the names and ages of the four men involved. It said: "Four men are to be prosecuted for public order offences following a disturbance on the 19.37 First Great Western London Paddington to Cardiff train on the evening of Sunday December 2. "At 9.25pm on December 2, BTP officers at Cardiff Central responded to a call to a group of men causing a disturbance on the train." It named the four men as Henson, from St Brides Major, Jamie Mark Griffiths, 26, from Bridgend, David Norman, 33, from Bridgend, and Matthew Rhys Williams, 25, from Wick. All four are being summoned to Cardiff Magistrates' Court next month for offences contrary to Section 5 of the Public Order Act 1986.

Drunken disturbance

Henson had bagged all the points in the Ospreys' victory, which came in the EDF Energy Cup, but traveling home from the match he was involved in the incident. Passengers complained that Henson's group were drunk, abusive and rowdy, and that one of them urinated on the carriage floor. The 25-year-old started his first game for Wales for a year when he turned out against South Africa last month, but is now out of action for six weeks because of a broken hand. Henson now misses Ospreys' remaining Heineken Cup games, but hopes to be back for Wales' Six Nations campaign starting in February. He will now also have the cloud of the disorderly conduct charge hanging over him as he recovers from the hand injury, which he insists he picked up playing against Quins, although some media reports have suggested he was injured while punching a friend while on the train.