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| Leicester City have launched an internal investigation after three of the club’s players were allegedly filmed in an orgy with a Thai woman who was racially abused. | Leicester City have launched an internal investigation after three of the club’s players were allegedly filmed in an orgy with a Thai woman who was racially abused. |
| The footage, obtained by the Sunday Mirror, allegedly shows the 22-year-old defender James Pearson, the son of the club’s manager, Nigel, the striker Tom Hopper, 21, and the goalkeeper Adam Smith, 22, naked in a Thai hotel room as women are filmed engaged in sex acts. In a clip of the video posted on the newspaper’s website, one of the men appears to be heard calling one of the women a “slit eye” in a racist slur. | |
| And later one calls one of the women “minging – an absolute one out of 10” as his friends laugh. Other offensive comments are made to the women as the players appear to laugh and egg each other on. It is alleged the trio shared the explicit video with friends back in the UK. | |
| “We take the conduct of our players at every level extremely seriously and will take appropriate action, if necessary, once the full facts of the situation have been established,” said the club in a statement. “Pending the outcome of an internal investigation, the club will make no further comment.” | “We take the conduct of our players at every level extremely seriously and will take appropriate action, if necessary, once the full facts of the situation have been established,” said the club in a statement. “Pending the outcome of an internal investigation, the club will make no further comment.” |
| The club, currently touring Thailand celebrating their successful battle against relegation from the Premier League, are owned by the Thai billionaires Vichai and Aiyawatt Srivaddhanaprabha and have been in “strategic, international partnership” with the Tourism Authority of Thailand for three years. The tourism authority’s Amazing Thailand branding is on the back of team shirts. |