{"id":101031,"date":"2025-08-28T01:47:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T01:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/101031\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T01:47:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T01:47:10","slug":"afl-legend-nicky-winmar-fronts-court-on-assault-choking-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/101031\/","title":{"rendered":"AFL legend Nicky Winmar fronts court on assault, choking charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AFL great Nicky Winmar has appeared in court, a month after he was charged with intentionally choking a person.<\/p>\n<p>The former St Kilda star only spoke briefly to say good morning and thank you to the magistrate as his case was adjourned on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Former AFL player Nicky Winmar leaves the Melbourne Magistrates Court following a brief mention on Thursday.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/f003549ea8809d36548fd039a21aab828bb39e62.jpeg\" height=\"390\" width=\"584\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Former AFL player Nicky Winmar leaves the Melbourne Magistrates Court following a brief mention on Thursday.Credit: AAP<\/p>\n<p>Winmar, whose legal first name is Neil, was in July charged with committing two assaults and intentionally choking, strangling or suffocating a person.<\/p>\n<p>The three incidents all allegedly happened on July 18, charge sheets state.<\/p>\n<p>The details of the allegations were not aired during Thursday\u2019s brief hearing in Melbourne Magistrates Court.<\/p>\n<p>Winmar\u2019s barrister, Dermot Dann, KC, instead told court the prosecution needed more time and so a month-long adjournment was required.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Winmar and Eddie McGuire on  Melbourne Cup Day at Flemington Racecourse in 2024.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/c75afd5c25f4fd913555725e47225d0fd88d74c3.jpeg\" height=\"390\" width=\"584\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Winmar and Eddie McGuire on  Melbourne Cup Day at Flemington Racecourse in 2024.Credit: Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Dann sought an extension for Winmar\u2019s bail, noting the 59-year-old had made \u201cexcellent\u201d progress while completing the court integrated services program (CISP).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe has attended every appointment and engaged enthusiastically,\u201d Dann told the court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AFL great Nicky Winmar has appeared in court, a month after he was charged with intentionally choking a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101032,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-101031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}