{"id":425877,"date":"2026-01-20T16:59:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T16:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/425877\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T16:59:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T16:59:12","slug":"afl-great-nicky-winmar-to-fight-assault-allegations-at-august-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/425877\/","title":{"rendered":"AFL great Nicky Winmar to fight assault allegations at August hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former St Kilda star Nicky Winmar will fight allegations he assaulted and choked a woman at a contested court hearing later this year.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Winmar was charged with two counts of assault and one count of choking, strangling or suffocating a person without lawful excuse on July 19 last year after an alleged incident the day prior. <\/p>\n<p>The two-time All Australian footballer appeared in the Melbourne Magistrates Court on Tuesday where the case was set down for a hearing in eight months time. <\/p>\n<p>The 60-year-old appeared via video link as his barrister, Dermott Dann KC, flagged the allegations will be disputed. <\/p>\n<p>Mr Winmar played 251 games over his 12-season career in the AFL and had his iconic stand against racist abuse immortalised in bronze outside Optus Stadium in Perth. <\/p>\n<p>He will return to court on August 11. <\/p>\n<p>Originally published as <a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.news.com.au\/sport\/afl\/afl-great-nicky-winmar-to-fight-assault-allegations-at-august-hearing\/news-story\/466ae51524de942752fc811a4d92eaa5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AFL great Nicky Winmar to fight assault allegations at August hearing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former St Kilda star Nicky Winmar will fight allegations he assaulted and choked a woman at a contested&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":425878,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,119658,64,63,689,55,223611,639,223613,208664,223614,647,185009,187436,223612,677,46,172435,85,1122,660,223610,3439],"class_list":["post-425877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-assault-allegations","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australian-footballer","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-d-day-set","tag-ian-currie","tag-iconic-stand","tag-melbourne","tag-newswire-court","tag-newswire-news","tag-nicky-winmar","tag-oceania","tag-perth","tag-racist-abuse","tag-sports","tag-st-kilda","tag-victoria","tag-video-link","tag-western-australia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425877","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=425877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/425878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}