England rugby star Billy Vunipola arrested after violent incident at pub in Majorca with eight police officers and two shots of a taser needed to subdue 20-stone athlete after he ‘threatened customers and staff with bottles and chairs’

England rugby international Billy Vunipola has been arrested after a violent incident at a pub in Majorca during which he slapped a police officer.

The 31-year-old had to be tasered twice after police rushed to a bar called Epic in the island capital Palma at 4.3srcam on Sunday morning following calls from security staff.

Local reports said the sportsman, who was born in Australia to Tongan parents and moved to the UK with his family as a young child, had taken off his shirt and was threatening customers and employees with bottles and chairs.

The 6ft 2in tall professional, who weighs nearly 2src stone, is said to have been unaffected by the first taser volt police used on him after clearing the bar so they could try to resolve the situation.

They overpowered him and handcuffed him after using a taser for the second time after Vunipola had reportedly challenged the officers and flexed his muscles.

Vunipola, a rugby-union number eight for Saracens in Premiership Rugby, was taken to nearby Son Espases Hospital after being held where he had to be sedated and bound to his bed.

Until the medication took effect several security guards and police officers had to watch over him.

He was taken to court on Sunday, wearing the same blue T-shirt and beige shorts he was arrested in, following the incident in the early hours.

His whereabouts today was unclear but he is understood to have been released on bail pending an ongoing investigation.

A spokesman for the National Police in Majorca, in their first formal comment on the arrest, said: ‘In the early hours of yest