{"id":29861,"date":"2025-07-29T11:40:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T11:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/29861\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T11:40:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T11:40:12","slug":"afl-great-nicky-winmar-accused-of-two-assaults-and-intentionally-choking-a-person-victoria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/29861\/","title":{"rendered":"AFL great Nicky Winmar accused of two assaults and intentionally choking a person | Victoria"},"content":{"rendered":"

AFL great Nicky Winmar<\/a> has been accused of two assaults and of intentionally choking a person, court documents reveal.<\/p>\n

The former St Kilda star, 59, had been listed for an application to revoke bail at Melbourne magistrates court on Tuesday, which could have seen him jailed.<\/p>\n

However, a prosecutor asked for this to be struck out.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe court made the decision to bail Mr Winmar on the 19th of July based on that application,\u201d she said, as the magistrate agreed to strike it out.<\/p>\n

Winmar faced court charged with three offences, however details of what these allege were not aired during the short hearing.<\/p>\n

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He has been charged with allegedly committing two assaults on 18 July.<\/p>\n

He is also charged with \u201cwithout lawful excuse intentionally choke, strangle or suffocate\u201d a person on the same date, according to court documents.<\/p>\n

Winmar, whose legal name is Neil, was represented in court on Tuesday morning by his lawyer, Tess Theocharous. Both appeared via video link.<\/p>\n

Theocharous said Winmar was undergoing a court integrated services program (CISP) as a condition of his bail, which had been granted on 18 July.<\/p>\n

She asked for his matter to be adjourned so he can have time to engage with the program.<\/p>\n

Theocharous said Winmar had attended an initial appointment at the court for CISP and had another scheduled for later on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Magistrate Vincenzo Caltabiano agreed to adjourn his case for a month.<\/p>\n

Winmar will next face the court on 28 August.<\/p>\n

The AFL<\/a> legend became the first Aboriginal footballer to play 200 games, finishing his career with 230 games at St Kilda and 21 for the Western Bulldogs.<\/p>\n

He fought back against a number of acts of racism throughout his football career, including standing in front of a Collingwood crowd<\/a> in 1993 where he was racially abused.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m black and I\u2019m proud to be black,\u201d he told the crowd, lifting his guernsey and pointing at his skin.<\/p>\n

In March, he was asked to co-lead a landmark racism class action in the supreme court, brought by other retired Indigenous players including Phil Krakouer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AFL great Nicky Winmar has been accused of two assaults and of intentionally choking a person, court documents…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29862,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-29861","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\/29861","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=29861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}