Ex-AFL and NRL rookie Shem Tatupu has admitted to a horrific domestic assault on a woman.<\/p>\n
The 30-year-old pleaded guilty in the Supreme Court on Monday to three charges including intentionally strangling, choking or suffocating the victim and intentionally causing her serious injury.<\/p>\n
The assault occurred at a property in Parkdale on May 19 last year.<\/p>\n
Tatupu, previously signed with the Hawks and Melbourne Storm, spoke only to enter his guilty pleas.<\/p>\n
His charges were downgraded from an initial charge of attempted murder, which carries a maximum term of 25 years\u2019 imprisonment.<\/p>\n
However he still faces the prospect of years behind bars.<\/p>\n
The maximum sentence for non-fatal strangulation, choking, or suffocation is five years\u2019 imprisonment or 10 years\u2019 imprisonment if the perpetrator intentionally causes injury.<\/p>\n
The court heard Tatupu had a history of violence.<\/p>\n
He admitted to committed unlawful assault, common law assault and intentionally damaging property on March 3.<\/p>\n
He will face a plea hearing in October.<\/p>\n
The Hawks recruited Tatupu as a Category B rookie at the end of 2013.<\/p>\n
In a social media post after he signed with the AFL club he described himself as a player who \u201clikes to get amongst everything and then get on the outside and use my speed and agility\u2019\u2019.<\/p>\n
Tatupu was with the Hawks for two seasons, appearing in the VFL for Box Hill Hawks\u2019 senior and reserves teams.<\/p>\n
He walked away from football in 2016 to join NRL\u2019s Melbourne Storm.<\/p>\n
In the past few years, he has been working as a security guard while playing football locally.<\/p>\n
Tatupu had a stint with Frankston in the VFL in 2019 and then played in the Southern and Mornington Peninsula leagues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ex-AFL and NRL rookie Shem Tatupu has admitted to a horrific domestic assault on a woman. The 30-year-old…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":767999,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-767998","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-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767998","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=767998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/767999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=767998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=767998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=767998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}