{"id":27687,"date":"2025-09-17T12:05:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T12:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/27687\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T12:05:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T12:05:09","slug":"sports-corruption-case-former-all-white-clayton-lewis-awaits-sentence-in-betting-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/27687\/","title":{"rendered":"Sports corruption case: Former All White Clayton Lewis awaits sentence in betting scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lewis\u2019 legal representatives, Zemarai Khatiz and Gabrielle Bashir, are seeking a community release order of two years and that a conviction not be entered.<\/p>\n

Bashir submitted to the court that Lewis\u2019 moral culpability was at the lower end as the 28-year-old was \u201ctargeted and exploited\u201d because he was a known gambling addict.<\/p>\n

She said there was a clear power imbalance between Davila, his former captain, and Lewis.<\/p>\n

\"ClaytonClayton Lewis pleaded guilty to corrupting a betting outcome but his sentencing has been adjourned for further submissions. Photo \/ Photosport<\/p>\n

\u201cNot only was he targeted, he was asked to do it by someone who was in a position of power and influence over him.\u201d<\/p>\n

The court heard Lewis has since been diagnosed with a gambling addiction and is undergoing treatment.<\/p>\n

Davila, the team\u2019s captain and alleged \u201cpoint man\u201d for a South American crime figure, is yet to enter a plea on the nine charges he faces and is due to reappear before the court later this month.<\/p>\n

The court also heard Lewis has suffered from serious mental health impacts since his arrest in May last year.<\/p>\n

Bashir told the court her client has been diagnosed with depression and PTSD as a result of his arrest, when \u201cpolice in tactical gear stormed his apartment while he and his partner slept\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cNot only was that apartment stormed, there is an image that went all around the world of him being cuffed and searched.\u201d<\/p>\n

She said Lewis had already suffered significant punishment.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe has carried the scorn of the nation. It will indelibly follow him for the rest of his life.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Crown was seeking a community correction order for Lewis and Baccus and asked the magistrate to consider \u201cwhat message it would send to the football community\u201d if convictions for the offending were not entered.<\/p>\n

\u2013 RNZ<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lewis\u2019 legal representatives, Zemarai Khatiz and Gabrielle Bashir, are seeking a community release order of two years and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27688,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[579,27500,5263,27495,27496,1121,27493,18836,3562,1349,2740,578,27497,27501,78,296,27494,111,139,69,27498,9644,3170,5763,213,27499,1734,1316,16550],"class_list":["post-27687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-addiction","tag-aleague","tag-all","tag-awaits","tag-betting","tag-case","tag-clayton","tag-club","tag-corruption","tag-court","tag-former","tag-gambling","tag-grips","tag-heard","tag-in","tag-into","tag-lewis","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-reeled","tag-scandal","tag-scheme","tag-sentence","tag-sports","tag-spotfixing","tag-sydney","tag-when","tag-white"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}