thugby player packer off to the slammer
Posted: Tue Jan 07, 2014 12:30 am
not to condone violence, in any way, but after a year of a number of violent incidents, Newcastle nights player russell packer, gets what he deserves 2 years jail for hitting a bloke. prehaps this will send a message to many of the other NRL thugby heroes that like to hitting people. no other code in Australia has the violent culture like the NRL does with a large number of off field incidents occurring regularly to follow suit.
Newcastle Knight rugby league player Russell Packer has been jailed for two years for assault, dismaying the Kiwi enforcer and prompting his lawyers to lodge an immediate appeal.
Packer looked to his supporters, which included his partner and a number of Knights officials, in distress before he was led away in handcuffs from a Downing Centre Local Court on Monday.
You added fuel to the fire by attacking a man lying motionless on the ground, punching him and then standing up and stomping on his head
Earlier Packer, 24, pleaded guilty to assault occasioning actual bodily harm after he bashed a man during a booze-fuelled night last year, with the court hearing he had stomped on his victim's face as the man lay motionless in Martin Place in Sydney's CBD.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-league/leag ... z2pcmsHkpL
Newcastle Knight rugby league player Russell Packer has been jailed for two years for assault, dismaying the Kiwi enforcer and prompting his lawyers to lodge an immediate appeal.
Packer looked to his supporters, which included his partner and a number of Knights officials, in distress before he was led away in handcuffs from a Downing Centre Local Court on Monday.
You added fuel to the fire by attacking a man lying motionless on the ground, punching him and then standing up and stomping on his head
Earlier Packer, 24, pleaded guilty to assault occasioning actual bodily harm after he bashed a man during a booze-fuelled night last year, with the court hearing he had stomped on his victim's face as the man lay motionless in Martin Place in Sydney's CBD.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-league/leag ... z2pcmsHkpL