Sydney kickboxer Sivan Dovale in court on assault charge
A Sydney kickboxer who was tracked down after NSW Police appealed for the public’s help to find her two weeks ago has appeared in court on a string of charges including assaulting police.
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A young kickboxer has allegedly found herself on the wrong side of the law, facing court on a string of charges including assaulting police.
Sivan Dovale, of Cromer, appeared in Waverley Local Court on Tuesday after NSW Police had called for the public’s help to find her two weeks ago because she was wanted on several outstanding warrants.
Court documents allege the 25-year-old assaulted a police constable in inner west Newtown on March 6 and hindered another constable in Haymarket in the CBD on February 12.
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Dovale has also been charged with multiple other offences, including failing to appear in accordance with her bail acknowledgment.
The court was told she has been completing a program at the Sydney Clinic, which is a private mental health hospital in Bronte.
In 2017, Dovale described to The Daily Telegraph how she had turned her life around through kickboxing and beaten an addiction to meth after first trying drugs at just 13.
“I could not have been more grateful for Muay Thai; I’ve got everything back together now,” she said at the time. “It escalated into an addiction of methamphetamine and I was struggling with that for a really long time and then I eventually moved onto heroin.
“I was living on the streets in Kings Cross and was in and out of hospital. There were a couple of horrific things that happened in my years of using.”
Dovale, who has trained at the Bulldog Gym in Balgowlah, was granted bail and will next appear on July 28 at Downing Centre Local Court. As a condition, she must not drink alcohol or take drugs unless those drugs are prescribed by a doctor.