Danny Cipriani’s England rugby future is in doubt after he pleaded guilty to charges of common assault and resisting arrest following an incident which left a female police officer with bruising.

Cipriani has been fined STG2000 ($A3500) a Jersey Magistrates’ Court and ordered to pay STG250 compensation for the bruised neck incurred by the officer during the confrontation at the Royal Yacht Hotel in St Helier on Wednesday.

Gloucester have come out in “full support” of their player but the Rugby Football Union has declined to comment and the 30-year-old’s international future now hangs in the balance only two months after it was relaunched in South Africa.

Cipriani set up the crucial try in the third Test victory in Cape Town, his first start in a decade, ending England’s six-game losing run and improving the prospects of the fly-half’s involvement in next year’s World Cup.

But the latest lapse of judgement lengthens an already extensive disciplinary record and threatens to cast him straight back into the international wilderness so soon after succeeding in his two-and-a-half year quest to persuade coach Eddie Jones that he is too gifted to be overlooked.

Possibly signposting Jones’ reaction to the events in Jersey were comments made by England’s head coach in May when discussing his selection.

“If he’s on the front page for any other reason (other than rugby) he won’t be with us,” he told Sky Sports News.

“The baggage doesn’t worry me. It’s how he behaves in front of me. I can’t control what he’s done in the past. All I can do is control what he does in the future.”

The Australian has been forgiving of previous transgressions by England players but he may now feel the initial assessment of Cipriani, which meant he was overlooked despite his outstanding club form for Wasps, was correct.