Greg Bird charges may be dropped : Fri Mar 13, 2009 12:31 am  

Fresh evidence from security guards at a Sydney night club mean assault charges against disgraced former NRL star Greg Bird may be dropped, a court has heard. Bird faces five charges of common assault, after allegedly attacking a woman at Fusions night club in Cronulla, in the early hours of June 19 last year. http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-na ... -8wzo.html

Fresh evidence from security guards at a Sydney night club mean assault charges against disgraced former NRL star Greg Bird may be dropped, a court has heard. Bird faces five charges of common assault, after allegedly attacking a woman at Fusions night club in Cronulla, in the early hours of June 19 last year. http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-na ... -8wzo.html

: Fri Mar 13, 2009 12:39 am  

Didn't he allegedly glass his girlfriend?

: Fri Mar 13, 2009 1:04 am  

Bird also faces a three-day hearing next month over an alleged assault on his girlfriend Kate Milligan, 24, which left her with a fractured eye socket

: Fri Mar 13, 2009 2:35 am  

yes he has 2 cases going

: Fri Mar 13, 2009 2:41 am  

Well, if the charges are dropped then you could say that that his club and the NRL conspired to ruin his career by prejudging and assuming he was guilty before the facts were fully known and he'd stood trial. Essentially they have hounded him out.

In the super League, because it's more of a minority sport then the players don't make the column inches too much so that the RFL can let things ride and let the courts deal with the issues. This seems a much more mature way. Over here in Sydney the press have been wetting themselves over the Stewart case and words like "scandal" are being freely used when so far only half an alleged garbled story has been told by the father who has apparently done time for fraud - so I would suggest that some may decide that he may not be the most straightforward and honest of people.

Something appears to have gone on, and I would not be surprised if Stewart gets downgraded to some sort of common assault charge while drunk and ends up fined and community service after a deal. But this is just my guess....

: Fri Mar 13, 2009 8:25 am  

More here

More here

: Fri Mar 13, 2009 8:46 am  

That is just one case, he still has to answer the glassing gfriend charge! Lovely man!

: Fri Mar 13, 2009 9:26 am  

he had 1 charge at court today . then when he was in court . the police added 4 more charges

: Fri Mar 13, 2009 11:52 am  

Come on you ozzies, keep it coming.

We'll be happy if he doesn't come back.

: Fri Mar 13, 2009 3:53 pm  

his on the plane back now http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/s ... 21,00.html FORMER NRL star Greg Bird was "the victim" when he allegedly assaulted a young woman in a Cronulla nightclub, Sutherland Local Court heard yesterday. The 25-year-old, who on Thursday flew in from France where he is playing for the Catalans rugby league team, had his one common assault charge upgraded to five charges but believes the evidence of three security guards and security video will clear him. "Three security officers are able not only to give evidence, but to give evidence to the effect that he was the victim in this matter," his solicitor Patrick Conaghan told the court.

his on the plane back now http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/s ... 21,00.html FORMER NRL star Greg Bird was "the victim" when he allegedly assaulted a young woman in a Cronulla nightclub, Sutherland Local Court heard yesterday. The 25-year-old, who on Thursday flew in from France where he is playing for the Catalans rugby league team, had his one common assault charge upgraded to five charges but believes the evidence of three security guards and security video will clear him. "Three security officers are able not only to give evidence, but to give evidence to the effect that he was the victim in this matter," his solicitor Patrick Conaghan told the court.