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Nicklas Bendtner Sentenced to 50 Days in Prison for Assault on Taxi Driver

Rosenborg forward Nicklas Bendtner has been sentenced to 50 days in jail after he was found to have assaulted a taxi driver.

News of the punishment for the former Arsenal player came from Danish newspaper B.T. (h/t the Guardian's Marcus Christenson):

Marcus Christenson

Nicklas Bendtner sentenced to 50 days in prison for attack on taxi driver https://t.co/OZ85rxJ27Z

According to Martin Domin of the Daily Mirror, the Denmark international has appealed the sentence.

Per Reuters, the driver needed surgery on a broken jaw following the incident.