Knowing that a call on Jack de Belin’s playing future was imminent,the Dragons put him through a personal training program that could see him back in the NRL next Thursday.
The former Australian Rugby League Commission chairman drove the policy’s introduction. And he remains undeterred despite Jack de Belin’s charges being dropped.
For the complainant and advocates for rape victims,it will be yet more devastating proof of how difficult it is to bring a sexual assault allegation to a court conviction.
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.