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<\/p>\nDisgraced rugby league star Curtis Scott accepts he needs help after spending a night in custody over alleged violent incidents involving police and a teenager outside an AFL match.<\/p>\n
The 28-year-old former Melbourne Storm and Canberra Raiders player was released on bail on Wednesday morning on conditions including he did not return to the Sydney Cricket Ground.<\/p>\n
Police allege an 18-year-old was assaulted by both Scott and his 55-year-old mother, Dianna Allen, following an argument after a Sydney Swans AFL game on Saturday night.<\/p>\n
The teen was treated by paramedics for facial injuries before being taken to a hospital.<\/p>\n
Police subsequently stopped a tram at Moore Park and attempted to speak to Scott.<\/p>\n
But the former league player and sometime boxer allegedly assaulted an officer and then fled the scene.<\/p>\n
The officer sustained minor injuries.<\/p>\n
Scott turned himself in to police on Tuesday morning and spent the night in custody, a bail court was told on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
The former centre, once among the NRL’s brightest young stars, is facing charges of affray, assault occasioning actual bodily harm and assaulting a police officer.<\/p>\n
Allen was charged with common assault and hindering or resisting a police officer in the execution of duty. She was released on police bail on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Police did not oppose Scott being given bail but sought a condition that he not contact his mother.<\/p>\n
That was knocked back by the court after opposition from Scott’s lawyer.<\/p>\n
“I don’t accept that someone can’t talk to their mother,” solicitor Paul McGirr said.<\/p>\n
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Scott appeared via video-link from a Sydney police station wearing handcuffs.<\/p>\n
Mr McGirr said the incident was “not a random attack”.<\/p>\n
“I don’t want to be in the business of victim blaming but there’s certainly a story there involving my client’s mother,” he said.<\/p>\n
“We concede they’re serious matters. Certainly, members of the public were very fearful of this behaviour.”<\/p>\n
Scott would be placed under the care of a rehabilitation and mental health expert as part of his bail conditions, his lawyer said.<\/p>\n
He would likely be required to abstain from drugs and alcohol.<\/p>\n
“He’s had his ‘come to Jesus’ moment, having spent a night in custody that he needs to get some help,” Mr McGirr said.<\/p>\n
The solicitor suggested the footballer might have a brain injury after a significant concussion during a nine-a-side tournament in Las Vegas in February.<\/p>\n
“I don’t believe that he got the right care and attention that he should have,” Mr McGirr said.<\/p>\n
Magistrate Daniel Covington noted Scott had a history of violence, having convicted the player in 2022 for domestic violence offences against his former partner, long-jumper Tay-Leiha Clark.<\/p>\n
The convictions were upheld on appeal, with a judge describing Scott’s actions as self-pitying and vengeful.<\/p>\n
His NRL contract was cancelled in 2021 after a pub altercation.<\/p>\n
But the magistrate said he was not concerned Scott would breach his bail conditions.<\/p>\n
The 28-year-old is due to return to court on April 8, while his mother is due to face court the following day.<\/p>\n
Scott played 84 NRL games during his career, including a stint in the Storm’s 2017 premiership-winning side.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Disgraced rugby league star Curtis Scott accepts he needs help after spending a night in custody over alleged…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":547564,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-547563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547563","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=547563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/547564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}