QPR star Ilias Chair sentenced to a year in jail for breaking truck driver’s skull with a rock [Video]

QPR ace Ilias Chair has been sentenced to a year in jail – after being found guilty of breaking a truck driver’s skull with a rock.

The Morocco midfielder has shone since joining the Championship club from Belgians Lierse in 2017.

But a court in his home town Antwerp sentenced him to a year in jail, with a further 12 months suspended, on Friday morning.

Chair, 26, was also ordered to pay his victim £13,400 compensation for his injuries.

The news is a huge blow to QPR, who are battling against relegation to League One.

The trial heard Chair, his brother Jaber and friends got into an argument with the trucker in Bazeilles, northern France, in summer 2020.

They and the driver, named as Niels T, had been waiting for a bus back to Belgium after a kayaking trip.

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