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Bulls part company with 'Cop killer' Roux
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The Blue Bulls have given prop Bees Roux his marching orders after he practiced with another rugby team whilst being under contract with the Bulls.
A disciplinary hearing found that he had trained with the Pumas rugby team without permission from the Blue Bulls during his culpable homicide trial for killing a metro police officer.
Roux was then discharged with immediate effect and this comes a month after he was convicted of culpable homicide last month.
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The Blue Bulls issued a statement saying,"The Preciding Officer, Mr. David Short, found that the Employer/Employee relationship has irretrievably broken down after it came to the Company's attention that Roux trained with the PUMAS while still under contract with the Blue Bulls.
"A continuation of the Employer/Employee relationship has become intolerable and therefore summary dismissal is an appropriate sanction under the circumstances. Roux's services have therefore been summarily terminated by the Company with immediate effect. "
Roux is reported to have testified at the hearing that he was under the impression he had permission to train with the Pumas.
According to Beeld newspaper the Blue Bulls did not bring the charges against Roux in connection with him killing Tshwane metro police officer Johannesburg Mogale last August.
Whilst the situation with the Blue Bulls and Roux appears to be over the matter of the murder case appears to be far from over as Beeld says Roux cannot pay the fine he was ordered to pay following the murder.
According to a plea bargain with the State, he received a five-year suspended sentence and had to pay Mogale's family R750,000.
Shortly after his conviction, his agent, James Adams, told Rapport newspaper that Roux was asking "every player, friend and family member" to contribute money.
Adams said Roux's legal costs were around R300,000 and that his girlfriend had taken out a second bond on her house.
At the time of his bail application, Roux said that the Bulls paid him R800,000 per year.
He signed a two-year contract with the Bulls at the end of the 2009 season and the contract was up for renewal at the end of October 2011.
This is starting to sound more and more like a movie