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Shaun Rooney: Defender leaves St Mirren ‘by mutual consent’ after assault cost

Defender Shaun Rooney has left St Mirren after being charged with assaulting a lady and a breach of the peace in opposition to a person in a Glasgow metropolis centre takeaway.

The Scottish Premiership facet suspended Rooney final month on a “precautionary foundation” after police confirmed he had been arrested and charged in reference to an assault on an 18-year-old girl.

The 28-year-old was additionally charged with a breach of the peace, handled as a hate crime, in opposition to an 18-year-old man.

A membership assertion learn: “St Mirren Soccer Membership can verify that Shaun Rooney has left the membership by mutual consent.

“The membership will make no additional remark.”

Rooney returned to Scottish soccer in the summertime following a spell with Fleetwood City, having beforehand performed for numerous groups together with St Johnstone, Inverness Caledonian Thistle, Queen of the South, Dunfermline and Queen’s Park.