Four England rugby players in New Zealand sex scandal are named

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Danny Care, Topsy Ojo, Mike Brown and David Strettle are the players involved, The Sun has reported.

The allegations relate to an incident on 14 June after the first of two heavy defeats by the All Blacks. England lost 37-20 in Auckland that day - despite the defeat, debutant Ojo was a national hero, scoring two tries.

Clockwise from top left: Danny Care, David Strettle, Topsy Ojo and Mike Brown all deny any wrongdoing

Two of the players reportedly accept that they had sex with an 18-year-old lapdancer at Auckland's Hilton Hotel, while two admit watching.

All four players - Care, 21, Brown, 22, and Strettle, 24, of Harlequins, and London Irish star Ojo, 22 - maintain that the sex was consensual.

The woman they spent the evening with has declined to make a formal complaint to police.

A source close to the team said: 'The players involved feel under pressure and angry. They are single guys who said they did nothing wrong.

'Players who had nothing to do with it are furious too. The whole squad feels it will stay under a shadow until the air is cleared.'

But it is now believed that up to nine players were involved in two separate incidents at the team hotel.

RFU chief executive Francis Baron said yesterday after the squad arrived home:

'If a complaint is not made in the next two to three days, I'm sure our legal team will be pressing police to close the file because it is a very unusual situation. In our view those boys are innocent.'