{"id":864113,"date":"2026-08-22T07:28:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T07:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/864113\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T07:28:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T07:28:19","slug":"third-woman-engages-lawyer-over-incredibly-traumatic-sydney-swans-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/864113\/","title":{"rendered":"Third woman engages lawyer over ‘incredibly traumatic’ Sydney Swans scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"

A lawyer representing a third woman involved in the Sydney Swans sexual assault scandal says a potential civil lawsuit is being looked at.<\/p>\n

Slater and Gordon senior lawyer, Jackson Pannam, has been engaged to represent a woman who he said contacted police immediately following the alleged assault at the Pullman Hotel in East Melbourne in the early hours of Monday, August 17.<\/p>\n

“Our client has had her entire world turned upside down and is now trying to navigate an incredibly traumatic experience,” he said.<\/p>\n

He said the firm’s lawyers “see the profound and long-lasting impact that serious injury, loss and abuse can have on people’s lives”.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Jackson Pannam says the woman’s world has been “turned upside down” by the incident. (ABC News)<\/p>\n

On Friday, Carbone Lawyers announced separately that it was representing two women<\/a>, believed to be adult entertainers involved in the incident, and looking into launching a civil claim.<\/p>\n

Several adult entertainers are understood to have joined players at the Pullman Hotel after being hired in the hours after the Swans’ victory against Essendon last Sunday night.<\/p>\n

Five players \u2014 Isaac Heeney, Nick Blakey, Chad Warner, Riley Bice and James Jordon \u2014 have been stood down by the Swans for breaching the club’s standards on drinking and staying out late following the match in Melbourne.<\/p>\n

Mr Pannam said following her initial contact with police, his client was continuing to speak to them as part of their investigation into the incident.<\/p>\n

“Everyone deserves to be safe going about their life, at home, at work, and in public spaces without risk of being assaulted or harmed,” Mr Pannam said.<\/p>\n

“We’re standing with our client to give her support at this difficult time, and to help her get the justice she deserves.”<\/p>\n

Mr Pannam described the woman as “extremely distressed” by what had occurred, and asked for her privacy, and that of the other women involved, to be respected.<\/p>\n

He said his client had not spoken to the media.<\/p>\n

A police investigation is still underway, but they have not made any arrests or laid charges.<\/p>\n

On Saturday, police provided an update about the investigation being undertaken by detectives from the Sexual Crimes Squad.<\/p>\n

“The exact circumstances of the matter are still being established, and a number of people have been spoken to,” the statement read.<\/p>\n

“As the investigation remains active and ongoing, we will not be commenting further, including providing information on the specific circumstances of the matter, movements of detectives and any statements or interviews taken.”<\/p>\n

In a statement, the Sydney Swans said the club “supports the action taken by Victoria Police in releasing today’s statement regarding the investigation”.<\/p>\n

The club’s statement also addressed comments relating to other men, beyond the five players identified by the club, being present in the hotel room<\/a> at the centre of the allegations.<\/p>\n

“The Sydney Swans categorically confirms that no member of staff is involved in the investigation. This includes being in the hotel room central to the police investigation,” it read.<\/p>\n

“The club reiterates that no player has been interviewed by police at this stage.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A lawyer representing a third woman involved in the Sydney Swans sexual assault scandal says a potential civil…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":864114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[638,24278,64,63,17536,38017,44,432965,6671,21453,7200,12632],"class_list":["post-864113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-afl","tag-assault","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-hotel","tag-lawyer","tag-news","tag-pullman","tag-sexual-assault","tag-swans","tag-sydney-swans","tag-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864113","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=864113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/864114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=864113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=864113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=864113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}