- Incident in the Pokies room developed in August 2024
- Amone issued an order of two -year community corrections
- NRL prohibited after the hammer attack against tradie in 2022
A former NRL player forbidden has avoided jail for spit in front of a woman who interrupted him in a Pokies pub room and made insulting comments about his stagnant football career.
The young man from Talatau, Amone, declared himself guilty of assaulting the incident at the Illawarra hotel in Wollongong in the early hours of a Sunday in August.
He was sentenced to an order of two -year community corrections in the Wollongong Local Court on Tuesday, which will submit to supervision and a requirement of being of good behavior.
The 22 -year -old must also do 150 hours of community service work and refrain from drinking alcohol for the period of the order.
The incident's CCTV images captured Amone and the woman in the pub room of the pub before an argument broke out.
The woman approached Amone, who had been drinking, as she looked at the screen of a poker machine, said defending lawyer Angela Cook to the court.
The forbidden NRL Talatau 'Junior' player has avoided jail for spit in front of a woman who interrupted him in a pub pub and made insulting comments about his stagnant football race
The former Five-Octavo
Amone and the woman previously had an 'fleeting intimate interaction', but there were no plans to meet that night, Cook said.
The former NRL player asked the woman 'I know you?' And she replied 'Do not play silly with me', according to judicial documents.
The argument began when the woman said “insult things” about Amone's family and her career, Cook said.
“It was sensitive at that time and remains sensitive,” he said.
“There was a great collapse and impact on a career that had followed, persecuted and persecuted, and had collapsed.”
In response, Amone began to abuse the woman, calling her a variety of offensive words before spitting on her face.
“What happens is a brief, short, impulsive, spontaneous and unplanned act,” Cook said.
Judge Michael Love previously described Amone's actions as “unpleasant and representable,” but said he would prefer to see him pay the community to serve the jail.
The former ST-ST George Illawarra Dragons Five-Ectavo had his contract of $ 500,000 torn in 2023 and cannot be recorded in the NRL until at least 2026 after a hammer attack against a merchant.
Amone was sentenced to an intensive correction order of 24 months in June 2024 after the violent confrontation with the man, which had parked on a neighboring property in November 2022.
He broke the windshield of the man's car with the hammer before climbing a roof and chasing the victim, who fell from a building and hit a unit of air conditioning on the road down.
The NRL was contacted for comments on Amone's game.