A former dual AFL premiership player is recovering in hospital after allegedly being assaulted on the Victorian New South Wales border.\u00a0<\/p>\n
60-year-old Carlton great Peter Dean was taken to Albury Base Hospital on Monday night after an alleged confrontation with a group of young people in the city’s CBD.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A NSW Ambulance spokesperson said paramedics were called to Smollett Street about 8pm following reports of an assault.<\/p>\n
“The patient, aged in his 60s, was found with a significant head injury and was taken to Albury Base Hospital by ambulance,” the spokesperson said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Mr Dean remains in a stable condition.\u00a0<\/p>\n
NSW Police confirmed officers from the Murray River Police District attended the scene and spoke with three young people nearby.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“Following inquiries by detectives from Murray River Police District, police arrested a 17-year-old boy in North Albury,” a police spokesperson said.<\/p>\n
“He was taken to Albury Police Station. The young person will be dealt with under the Young Offenders Act.”<\/p>\n
Police also seized several mobile phones as part of their investigation.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Mr Dean played in Carlton’s premiership sides in 1987 and 1995.\u00a0<\/p>\n
More recently he has been involved with the Lavington Panthers Football Netball Club in the Ovens and Murray Football League.<\/p>\n
He is the father of Harry Dean, who was drafted to Carlton last year under the AFL’s father\u2013son rule.<\/p>\n
Carlton Football Club said it was “offering support to Peter and his family”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A former dual AFL premiership player is recovering in hospital after allegedly being assaulted on the Victorian New…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":472259,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,240888,240889,24278,64,63,55,639,6856,2536,240890,236007,85],"class_list":["post-472258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-afl-assault","tag-albury-assault","tag-assault","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-carlton","tag-harry-dean","tag-lavington","tag-peter-dean","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472258","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=472258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}