{"id":432756,"date":"2026-01-23T18:33:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T18:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/432756\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T18:33:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T18:33:18","slug":"west-coast-afl-forward-tyler-brockman-charged-by-police-over-alleged-3-50am-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/432756\/","title":{"rendered":"West Coast AFL forward Tyler Brockman charged by police over alleged 3.50am incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">West Coast forward Tyler Brockman has been charged with one count of grievous bodily harm, the <a class=\"css-1lg16vp-StyledTextLink ezegcyi0\" data-link-type=\"article-inline\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/7news.com.au\/sport\/afl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">AFL<\/a> club confirmed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">The Eagles released a brief statement on Friday, confirming Brockman had been charged by WA Police following an incident near Geraldton on December 28.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Police will allege in court that Brockman struck a man in his late teens at about 3.50am in Drummond Cove \u2014 almost 430km north of Perth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-178igh4-StyledParagraph e1s06mna1\">Know the news with the 7NEWS app: <a class=\"css-h2mhmv-StyledContextualLink e1s06mna0\" href=\"https:\/\/7news.com.au\/app?utm_source=7NEWS&amp;utm_medium=contextual-link-app&amp;utm_campaign=7news-app\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Download today Arrow<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">The victim sustained serious, non-life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Brockman is due to appear before the Geraldton Magistrates Court on February 19.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">The 23-year-old has returned to training following the off-season incident, with <a class=\"css-1lg16vp-StyledTextLink ezegcyi0\" data-link-type=\"article-inline\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thewest.com.au\/news\/crime\/tyler-brockman-west-coast-eagles-player-charged-over-fight-in-geraldton-during-christmas-break-c-21401259\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The West Australian<\/a> reporting he was on the field on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Drafted to Hawthorn in 2021 before returning home to WA in 2024, Brockman has played 30 games for the Eagles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">He kicked 14 goals across 20 games last year, after a syndesmosis issue ended his 2024 campaign early.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"css-6fiqrm-StyledLinkWrapper e1y7kr221\" href=\"https:\/\/7news.com.au\/sport\/australian-open\/australian-open-organisers-make-big-move-amid-extreme-heat-forecast-for-saturday-c-21400436\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>Aus Open on high alert with extreme heat forecast<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-xp0jgm-StyledTimeToRead e1y7kr223\">2 min read<\/p>\n<p><\/a><a class=\"css-6fiqrm-StyledLinkWrapper e1y7kr221\" href=\"https:\/\/7news.com.au\/sport\/tennis\/yulia-putintseva-booed-off-court-as-australian-open-crowd-turns-hostile-after-fiery-win-over-zeynep-sonmez-c-21401289\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>Fiery Aus Open winner booed off court as crowd turns hostile<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-xp0jgm-StyledTimeToRead e1y7kr223\">2 min read<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"West Coast forward Tyler Brockman has been charged with one count of grievous bodily harm, the AFL club&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":432757,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,588,85,7067],"class_list":["post-432756","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-sport","tag-sports","tag-west-coast-eagles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432756","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=432756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}