{"id":920991,"date":"2026-10-08T19:54:23","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T19:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/920991\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T19:54:23","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T19:54:23","slug":"rhys-wesser-stalking-charge-dismissed-after-avo-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/920991\/","title":{"rendered":"Rhys Wesser stalking charge dismissed after AVO agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former NRL star Rhys Wesser has had a charge he stalked a woman withdrawn by police.<\/p>\n<p>The one-time premiership player for the Penrith Panthers was facing one charge of intimidation, but it was formally dismissed in a Sydney court on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The Downing Centre Local Court was told that Mr Wesser, 47, had agreed without admissions to enter into a two-year apprehended violence order taken out by Kerry Anne Smith.<\/p>\n<p>According to previous reports, police had alleged Mr Wesser intimidated a 53-year-old woman whom he was romantically linked to between January 23 and January 31 in Redfern, Sydney.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Clare Farnan formally dismissed the charge against Mr Wesser who did not attend court.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Wesser, whose try-scoring prowess earnt him the nickname \u201cRhys Lightning\u201d, won a premiership with the Penrith Panthers in 2003 and represented Queensland in the State of Origin before finishing his career with Souths.<\/p>\n<p>Originally published as <a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.news.com.au\/sport\/nrl\/former-nrl-star-rhys-wesser-has-stalking-charge-withdrawn-by-police\/news-story\/b0e6f1d47ae522da5241dfd06a12e29f\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Former NRL star Rhys Wesser has stalking charge withdrawn by police<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former NRL star Rhys Wesser has had a charge he stalked a woman withdrawn by police. The one-time&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":920992,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[357778,393297,488921,390369,488918,404899,488913,410572,488925,376610,45551,64,63,10966,389522,488919,414452,488927,379545,247029,488923,488920,488922,761,762,185009,158,477943,16911,1158,457105,701,149134,488926,16282,85,488914,379344,462391,488916,402335,165057,488915,488924,488917],"class_list":["post-920991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-357778","tag-393297","tag-a-53-year-old-woman","tag-a-charge","tag-a-former-premiership-winning-nrl-player","tag-a-premiership","tag-a-stalking-charge","tag-a-sydney-court","tag-a-two-year-apprehended-violence-order","tag-a-woman","tag-admissions","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-charge","tag-cops","tag-court-mr-wesser","tag-former-nrl-star","tag-former-nrl-star-rhys-wesser","tag-his-career","tag-intimidation","tag-january-23-and-january-31","tag-kerry-anne","tag-mr-wesser","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-newswire-court","tag-nrl","tag-one-charge","tag-origin","tag-police","tag-previous-reports","tag-queensland","tag-redfern","tag-rhys-lightning","tag-souths","tag-sports","tag-sydney-judge-clare-farnan","tag-the-charge","tag-the-nickname","tag-the-one-time-premiership-player","tag-the-penrith-panthers","tag-the-state","tag-this-move","tag-thursday-the-downing-centre-local-court","tag-whose-try-scoring-prowess"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920991","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=920991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/920992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=920991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=920991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=920991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}