After paying Jack de Belin more than a million dollars not to play for them,St George Illawarra have called for the NRL’s ‘no fault’ stand-down policy to be reviewed.
The St George Illawarra forward will be free to resume his NRL career in coming weeks after being told he won’t stand trial for a third time.
The Dragons forward faces a third trial for the alleged rape of a 19-year-old woman. Regardless,the NRL’s controversial no-fault stand-down rule must stay.
Today on Please Explain court reporter Georgina Mitchell joins Nathanael Cooper to tell us more about the de Belin trial.
A jury acquitted footballers Jack de Belin and Callan Sinclair of one charge,relating to assaulting a woman in a Wollongong unit in December 2018,but was not able to reach a verdict on remaining charges.
The jury in the trial of footballers Jack de Belin and Callan Sinclair have signalled they may continue deliberating into next week in order to reach a unanimous verdict on the aggravated sexual assault charges against the men.
Judge Nicole Noman told the jury that if the woman didn’t act in a way they would have expected a person to behave after being sexually assaulted,then that didn’t necessarily mean she was unreliable.
A young woman allegedly raped by footballers Jack de Belin and Callan Sinclair was captured on CCTV “enjoying herself” in their company afterwards,a jury has been told.
A prosecutor has told a jury footballer Jack de Belin believed he could do whatever he wanted on the night a woman was allegedly assaulted in December 2018.
The NRL player has told a court he had a consensual threesome with a woman and felt ‘sick’ when she accused him of sexual assault.
Callan Sinclair told his mum that the complainant was “hanging around us like a bad smell” on the night he allegedly raped her. Jack De Belin said he didn’t know her “from a bar of soap”.