Kian Wise: Christmas Eve brawler and NTFL star walks free with suspended sentence
CHRISTMAS Eve Mitchell St brawler and NTFL best and fairest player Kian Wise has walked free from court
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CHRISTMAS Eve Mitchell St brawler and NTFL best and fairest player Kian Wise has walked free from court without any extra actual prison time after pleading guilty today.
The 20-year-old star player for the Nightcliff Tigers pleaded guilty to the downgraded charge of aggravated assault for his role in the six-on-one bashing that left a tourist “left in a pile of blood in a gutter.”
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The court heard Wise and his five co-accused chased down and attacked a 28-year-old stranger in the early hours of Christmas Eve after a number of them were kicked out of the Monsoons nightclub.
Wise’s lawyer, Matt Hubber, told the court his client alleges the victim assaulted one of the women in the group, which sparked the attack in the woman’s defence.
“What happened was completely over the top, everyone was intoxicated,” he said.
Mr Hubber told the court his client had no criminal history and was even named the Nightcliff Division two best and fairest player.
He also said his client was not as involved in the violence as some of his co-accused and that “his behaviour can clearly be distinguished” from theirs in CCTV footage of the incident.
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However, prosecutor Cecily Hollingworth said witnesses described the attack as “disgusting” “by far the worst they’d ever seen” and that they thought the victim had been killed.
Acting Judge Richard Wallace sentenced Wise to seven months prison, suspended immediately.
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