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<\/p>\nAll charges relating to two alleged drunken rampages against former dual-code international footballer Wendell Sailor have been dismissed by a Sydney court under mental health grounds.<\/p>\n
In 2024, Sailor was charged with two counts of common assault and other offences after allegedly refusing to leave a licensed premises in Sydney’s CBD.<\/p>\n
The former Brisbane Broncos and Wallabies winger remained near Sydney city venue Pappy’s Bar on Erskine St after being refused service due to his conduct.<\/p>\n
Sailor was also last year charged with offences after an alleged drunken night at a bar in Wollongong.<\/p>\n
The court heard his conduct included “aggressive” behaviour towards a taxi driver and resisting arrest when police were called.<\/p>\n
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Sailor is now under the care of his doctor as he undergoes medical treatment. (ABC News: Jamie McKinnell)<\/p>\n
In Downing Centre Local Court, Magistrate Jennifer Atkinson said she accepted Sailor’s case fell under Section 14 of the Mental Health Act.<\/p>\n
The section allows magistrates to divert defendants with mental health impairments from the criminal justice system.<\/p>\n
“After reading the report from his consultant forensic psychiatrist Dr Sathish Dayalan, he appeared to be suffering from a major depressive disorder around the time of the offences,” Ms Atkinson said.<\/p>\n
“His excessive alcohol use was probably a by-product of his disorder.”<\/p>\n
Discharged into doctor’s care<\/p>\n
The court heard Sailor has undertaken psychiatric treatment and started therapy since the second alleged incident in Wollongong, starting at the beginning of this year.<\/p>\n
The court was told Sailor had already pleaded guilty to three offences relating to the two separate incidents.<\/p>\n
Ms Atkinson said she accepted the detailed health plan put forward by his lawyer Adam Houda to deal with his mental health and alcohol issues.<\/p>\n
“The applicant [Sailor] has nothing on his criminal record prior to the two incidents,” she said.<\/p>\n
Ms Atkinson also noted the death of Sailor’s mother and the end of his relationship.<\/p>\n
“I am dismissing the charges and discharging him into the care of his GP to comply with his treatment plan,” she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All charges relating to two alleged drunken rampages against former dual-code international footballer Wendell Sailor have been dismissed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":566910,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[24278,64,63,1108,226217,278890,2733,198757,85,278889,161246,182874,184902,278891,278892],"class_list":["post-566909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-assault","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-court","tag-downing-centre-local-court","tag-former-footballer","tag-nsw","tag-nsw-court","tag-sports","tag-sydney-bar","tag-sydney-court","tag-sydney-news","tag-wendell-sailor","tag-wendell-sailor-arrested","tag-wendell-sailor-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566909","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=566909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/566910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}