Looks like this will be a very interesting story to read this Friday. Gareth Walker does the reporting in this week’s copy of the Rugby Leaguer & League Express.

Owen was sentenced to 15 months in July last year, after pleading guilty to violent disorder during a fight outside a Leeds nightclub in the summer of 2002. Walker was given 18 months in a young offenders institute and Bailey nine months, while Barker was handed 150 hours community service.

Owen was released at the end of last year under the new "tagging" system that also quickened Walker and Bailey's releases.

And in an exclusive and revealing interview with Rugby League World magazine, the former Keighley player has told of his "nightmare year".

In the article, Owen recounts the events of the night of the incident, criticises the lawyers who defended all the players, and tells of the "uninhabitable" conditions inside one of the prisons he was detained in.

He talks of the personal torture of the CCTV video being shown in front of his family and friends in the courtroom, and the impact his sentence had on them.

And Owen, a lifelong Rhinos fan, also speaks with remarkable honesty about his role in the brawl, dispelling the notion that it was a three-on-one fight and insisting he holds no grudges against the Leeds players.

"What I did was wrong, what they did was wrong, we were both as bad as each other," Owen tells Rugby League World.

"They weren't the villains and neither was I. "We all realised we made a mistake, and we'll regret it for the rest of our lives."

Read the amazing full interview in the May issue of Rugby League World, out this Friday