drink driving<\/a> earlier this year \u2014 as revealed by the Herald Sun.<\/p>\nThe court heard Thomas blew 0.111 after being intercepted by police behind the wheel about 4.13am in early August.<\/p>\n
He had previously attended multiple functions throughout the day, including one at the Bridge Hotel in Werribee.<\/p>\n
His car was also impounded.<\/p>\n
At the time Thomas was playing for the Hoppers Crossing Football Club in the Western Football League.<\/p>\n
His lawyer Sally Vardy told the court Thomas was employed by youth mentor organisation 16 yards and had to scale back a lot of his work there. <\/p>\n
Ms Vardy submitted that there were \u201cno aggravating\u201d features \u2014 like any erratic driving \u2014 and that Thomas was \u201cstaying engaged\u201d in the community.<\/p>\n
Magistrate Julie Grainger told Thomas this was a \u201cserious offence\u201d that was \u201cincredibly disruptive\u201d to his life.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne of the things about drink driving is you\u2019re too drunk to realise you can\u2019t drive,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n
Ms Grainger said this was another \u201clived experience\u201d for Thomas to share with the kids he mentored. <\/p>\n
Thomas was convicted and had his license cancelled for 11 months, backdated to August 3. <\/p>\n
He was also fined $800.<\/p>\n
Outside court Thomas hugged his lawyer and was driven away by a friend.<\/p>\n
Thomas played 69 games for North Melbourne in the AFL between 2019 and 2023, touted as <\/p>\n
one of the league\u2019s best young prospects after being taken at pick 8 in the 2018 draft.<\/p>\n
In November 2024 he was placed on a good behaviour bond after pleading guilty to domestic violence offences.<\/p>\n
That year the AFL also sacked the once promising midfielder for breaching its code of conduct<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Disgraced ex-AFL midfielder Tarryn Thomas has been busted drink-driving in Melbourne\u2019s western suburbs in his latest brush with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":958399,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[525716,377626,445855,525725,525720,452604,525706,525722,525703,525702,525714,460935,525694,525724,376730,638,525699,525698,64,404082,63,55,639,130231,1108,525707,525713,525700,525701,8851,34155,525695,376920,525697,525729,525731,430799,497333,389167,387253,525711,44068,647,13052,525726,525719,525708,525723,525728,6855,469942,488560,1158,25176,85,60768,525712,379302,525730,525715,378543,525709,379738,215379,525696,525704,378567,126024,280721,525717,380911,376539,525705,379341,525727,7772,525721,525710,525718],"class_list":["post-958398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-s-best-young","tag-s-west","tag-s-western-suburbs","tag-800-outside","tag-0-111","tag-11-months","tag-16-yards","tag-2019-and-2023","tag-4-13am","tag-69-games","tag-a-serious-offence","tag-a-boozy-night","tag-a-friend-thomas","tag-a-good-behaviour-bond","tag-a-lot","tag-afl","tag-another-lived-experience","tag-any-erratic-driving","tag-au","tag-august-3","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-conduct","tag-court","tag-court-thomas","tag-disgraced-ex-afl-midfielder","tag-disgraced-ex-afl-midfielder-tarryn-thomas","tag-domestic-violence-offences-that-year","tag-drink","tag-drink-driving","tag-drink-driving-bust","tag-earlier-this-year","tag-early-august-he","tag-former-north-melbourne-midfielder-tarryn-thomas","tag-his-latest-brush","tag-his-lawyer","tag-his-license","tag-his-life","tag-his-work","tag-its-code","tag-licence","tag-melbourne","tag-monday","tag-more-than-double-the-legal-limit","tag-ms-grainger","tag-ms-vardy","tag-multiple-functions","tag-no-aggravating-features","tag-north-melbourne","tag-november-2024","tag-pick-8","tag-police","tag-prospects","tag-sports","tag-tarryn-thomas","tag-the-2018-draft-in","tag-the-afl","tag-the-bridge-hotel","tag-the-community-magistrate-julie-grainger","tag-the-court","tag-the-court-thomas","tag-the-day","tag-the-end","tag-the-herald-sun-the-court","tag-the-hoppers-crossing-football-club","tag-the-kids","tag-the-law","tag-the-league","tag-the-once-promising-midfielder","tag-the-things","tag-the-time","tag-the-western-football-league-his-lawyer-sally-vardy","tag-the-wheel","tag-the-wyndham-magistrates","tag-thomas","tag-thomas-trindall","tag-werribee-his-car","tag-youth-mentor-organisation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958398","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=958398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/958399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=958398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=958398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=958398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}