QPR midfielder Ilias Chair has opened up for the first time about being found guilty in Belgium of assaulting a man and breaking his skull with a rock.

Chair has said he reached the “lowest point in my life” when the threat of jail was hanging over him for his part in an argument during a holiday in the summer of 2020.

In January 2024, Chair learned he was being prosecuted in a criminal case.

Chair was part of a small group of family and friends on kayaking trip in the Ardennes Forest in 2020 when an argument started with another group as they waited for a bus back to their base.

When the bus pulled up, the two groups argued over who should have boarding priority and the situation quickly escalated and Chair’s mother was hurt in the melee.

A man identified in the case only as Niels

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