Rugby star on trial over pub sexual assault charge

Embattled Wallabies star Kurtley Beale will face court docket on Monday for the primary day of a legal trial into allegations he assaulted a girl at a Sydney bar.

The 35-year-old pleaded not responsible at Downing Centre Local Court final 12 months to at least one depend of sexual activity with out consent, and two counts of sexual touching.

Police allege the NSW Warratah veteran sexually assaulted a 28-year-old girl on the Beach Road lodge, close to Bondi Beach, late at evening on December 17, 2022.

Mr Beale, who has adamantly rejected the allegations, was stood down by Rugby Australia in January 2023, only a week after he took half in a 44-man coaching camp.

In August, a Sydney court docket granted an software to fluctuate Mr Beale’s bail to permit him to journey abroad to France to take up a contract to play rugby union there.

At the time, the court docket was informed the 2011 John Eales medal awardee was in negotiations to play in France and had obtained affords from golf equipment, however no contract as but.

Mr Beale, who’s initially from Mt Druitt, has remodeled 90 nationwide consultant participant appearances in his 10-year profession, and has 95 caps for the Wallabies.

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