Sam Gerrey-Burgess charged with alleged kidnapping and assault

A rising rugby league star is behind bars after he allegedly kidnapped and assaulted a man at a Sydney apartment for several hours in an attempt to take $10,000 from him.

Former South Sydney Rabbitohs player Sam Gerrey-Burgess has been charged with an alleged kidnapping and assault. Picture: Supplied

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A rising rugby league star is behind bars after he allegedly kidnapped and assaulted a man for several hours in an attempt to take $10,000 from him.

Samuel Gerrey-Burgess, 25, was arrested and charged with detaining a person for advantage in company and assault causing actual bodily harm after he and two other men allegedly bailed up a man in a Milsons Point apartment for three hours on February 20.

The 35-year old alleged victim was treated at Royal North Shore Hospital for facial and chest injuries.

Gerrey-Burgess appeared briefly in the dock and did not apply for bail prior to a court appearance with his co-accused Dean Contos and Pita Korovou at Central Local Court on May 2.

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He was also charged with illegally possessing 0.78g of Xanax when he was arrested in Caringbah on Thursday.

The Caringbah man was once known as the South Sydney Rabbitohs so-called “other Sam Burgess” due to their similar names, though it is believed he never took the field for the club.

Gerrey-Burgess attended St Ignatius College in Riverview and also played rugby in Randwick among his brushes with rugby league success.