Former Manchester City footballer Jerome Boateng has been fined £1.5 million (1.8 million euros) by a court in Munich after being found guilty of biting and punching his ex-girlfriend.
The German football star, 33, was convicted of assaulting his ex-fiancée Sherin Senler during a Caribbean holiday three years ago but avoided a potential five-year jail term.
Ms Senler, who is the mother of his twin daughters, told the court on Thursday that Boateng bit her and spat blood in her face and punched her in the kidney so hard she could not breathe.
Boateng had earlier denied all the allegations made against him as he testified for almost two hours on Thursday.