(from the Irish Times, Sep 3 2001)
"Mersoiu was detained by police in his home village of Gugesti, 180 kilometres (120 miles) east of Bucharest, for killing a man who was his mother's live-in lover," Steaua's rugby manager Marin Mot said.
Mersoiu, 23, has been capped 10 times as a flanker for Romania and played in Ireland’s 37-3 victory over Romania in Bucharest last June.