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Topsy Ojo, Mike Brown and Danny Care have been confirmed as the three England rugby players who were investigated following sex allegations on the team's recent tour of New Zealand.

David Strettle was the other member of the squad to become the subject of a Rugby Football Union inquiry, after the women who claimed to be at the centre of the affair refused to follow up with formal complaints to the police.

The players were accused by the women of inappropriate sexual behaviour at the Hilton Hotel in Auckland. After the initial allegation, neither took the matter further and the players were all free to leave New Zealand.

The RFU held its own investigation, and today its disciplinary officer Judge Jeff Blackett found that Ojo and Brown were guilty of misconduct.

Brown was fined £1,000 for “staying out all night during an England rugby tour” and missing a physiotherapist appointment, while Ojo was hit with a £500 fine, also for staying out all night.

Blackett said: “All the players I have interviewed vehemently deny any criminal wrongdoing and I have seen or heard no evidence which has been tested to gainsay those denials.”

Care and Strettle, the Harlequins wing who was fast-tracked into the England squad last year, were found not guilty of misconduct.

“This case has thus boiled down to no more than errors of judgment by young players on their first or second major international tour, which are insufficient in themselves to effect future England selection,” Blackett wrote.

“No doubt in the past, England players on tour have stayed out too late, drunk excessive quantities of alcohol, invited guests back to the team hotel and missed physiotherapist appointments or training the next morning.

“Such activity is now inconsistent with the life of an elite professional rugby player in the modern era and with membership of a team seeking to be the best in the world.

"There is clearly a need for a tighter rein on players when they are on England duty and they all need to be given clear guidelines about the limits of acceptable behaviour. This is most important in relation to very young players who do not yet have the life skills to cope with sudden stardom."