WORLD Rugby’s influential executive committee could be about to break unwanted new ground with the election of Francis Kean, who was convicted of manslaughter after killing a man after a fight at a wedding in 2007.
Kean, who is Fiji Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama’s brotherin-law, was a naval commander at the time, but despite the ferocity of the attack, in which the judge said his “serious loss of self-control also aggravates this crime” he served only three months in jail.
Kean, who is the Fiji Rugby Union chairman, and was seconded by the French Federation, ...