Hernandez avoids prison after Madrid court accepts appeal

Bayern Munich's French international defender Lucas Hernandez has avoided a six-month prison sentence after a Madrid court accepted his appeal on Wednesday, reported Xinhua.

Hernandez faced going to jail after breaching a restraining order placed on him following a domestic incident with his then-girlfriend in 2017, when he played for Atletico Madrid.

He was also told to carry out 31 days of community service, which he failed to complete.

The player and his partner then married and went on honeymoon together, despite the restraining order, and he was subsequently detained on returning to Spain.

On September 14, Hernandez was instructed to appear in court in Madrid again on October 19 and to say which prison he preferred to spend his jail term in.

But he appealed against the prison term and that appeal has now been accepted, although he will have to pay a 96,000 euro fine, while the sentence is suspended for four years.