Greg Bird charged with violent attack

[PHaTMaN]

They should pursue any charge they can if you believe that he did not do it then you are a moron, if they cant get him on the assualt then if they have evidence of another charge then they should procced.

Heres a question for you what if it had been your sister or mother that this had happened to would you want the prick charged with anything they could or would you want him realesed.

Well her old man seems pretty ok with the situation.

 

[blacktip-reefy]

why hasnt she been charged with making a false accusation then?

 

[millersnose]

oh?

and what did he say that led you to that conclusion Phatman?

 

[DJShaksta]

I stated the same thing in the NRL forum thread saying the same thing Reefy.

IMO this is just the cops trying to charge him with something that they can get to stick.

 

[myanonymoususername]

why hasnt she been charged with making a false accusation then?

She hasn't given a statement to police. Bird presumably said something to infer that his ex-friend was involved in his statement to police.

 

[azzah72]

why hasnt she been charged with making a false accusation then?

she might, not just yet though.

It'll be a domino effect if they nab him i reckon.

 

[DJShaksta]

oh?

and what did he say that led you to that conclusion Phatman?

The fact that Bird is still alive.

If this was daughter, and she told me it was deliberate, poor Birdman would vanish into the night and never be seen again.

 

[DJShaksta]

She hasn't given a statement to police. Bird presumably said something to infer that his ex-friend was involved in his statement to police.

The media reported that she also indicated to police that Mr.Watson was responsible for her injuries when the police were contacted initially.

 

[sharks8601]

The media reported that she also indicated to police that Mr.Watson was responsible for her injuries when the police were contacted initially.

hmmmm there lies the problem
the media are running the case

 

[sharks8601]

cant understand a hypothetical question 8601

all the stuff about his mate and the messages which are the basis for these new charges really promote a not guilty angle dont they

do you know what was said or are you just going by what the media have said???

 

[sharks8601]

who f**king knows
they might charge him with farting soon

 

[Capt. Awesome Sauce]

Greg Bird faces further charges
15:00 AEST Mon Sep 29 2008
Greg Bird has been stood down by the Cronulla Sharks indefinitely.
By ninemsn staff

Greg Bird has been stood down by the Cronulla Sharks indefinitely.



Rugby league star Greg Bird is facing further charges over the alleged glassing incident that left his girlfriend with permanent scars around her eye.

The Cronulla Sharks' five-eighth was already charged with maliciously inflicting grievous bodily harm over allegations he hit girlfriend Kate Milligan with a glass at his Cronulla apartment, in Sydney's south, during an argument at about 7.30am on August 24.

Milligan, a 24-year-old American law student, suffered a fractured eye socket and underwent surgery for glass wounds to her eye.

Bird, also 24, will now face the additional charges of public mischief and making a false accusation when he faces Sydney's Downing Centre Local Court on October 9.

A police prosecutor said in court last month that the NRL star "actively tried to deceive" police and "tried to pin the offence" on his flatmate Brent Watson, who was playing golf in Bankstown at the time of the alleged glassing incident.

Police did not explain why there was a delay in laying the extra charges.

Milligan has pledged her support for Bird and even tried unsuccessfully to lift an apprehended violence order against her boyfriend earlier this month.

She also claims neither she nor Bird was intoxicated during the glassing incident.

Milligan has said she moved from New York to study law in Sydney after falling in love with Bird.

Bird has also been issued a court attendance notice for common assault relating to an alleged incident involving another woman at a nightclub in Cronulla on January 19 this year.

source:http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=638706

 

[Eion]

The cops seem to covering their bases. It seems to me they're almost conceding they'll lose the assault case and will hope to get up on these new ones instead. Fair enough imo if you believe even a tenth of what it's been reported bird told police. The question is what does the club do if found not guilty of the assault but guilty of the mischief stuff....?

 

[sharks8601]

any guilty charge will result in him gooooooorrrrrrnnnnnnneeeee

 

[Dave Q]

Law Update:-

CRIMES ACT 1900 - SECT 314

False accusations etc
314 False accusations etc

A person who makes an accusation intending a person to be the subject of an investigation of an offence, knowing that other person to be innocent of the offence, is liable to imprisonment for 7 years.

and

Public mischief
547B Public mischief

(1) Any person who, by any means, knowingly makes to a police officer any false representation that an act has been, or will be, done or that any event has occurred, or will occur, which act or event as so represented is such as calls for an investigation by a police officer, shall be liable on conviction before a Local Court to imprisonment for 12 months, or to a fine of 50 penalty units, or both.​

(2) For the purposes of subsection (1), a person shall be deemed to make a representation to a police officer if the person makes the representation to any other person and the nature of the representation reasonably requires that other person to communicate it to a police officer and that person does so communicate it.​

 

[blacktip-reefy]

f**k me dead those laws are over the top.
7 years for a false accusation, yet the cops cant get charged for it.

 

[Sharkie73]

Back up charges!!! I guess the police know the main charge of GBH is going to fall in a heap.

 

[Miller was a legend]

We don't actually know what Bird said about Watson in relation to his involvement, so based on the assumption the Police may struggle to pin False Accusation on Bird the most likely is Public Mischief under subsection 2. Given that it is alleged Bird told the Hospital staff that Watson was involved and he told the Cronulla club guests at his unit were involved and he was not present. IMO worst case in a local court he would be fined. Local Courts rarely impose gaol time and usually when they have it is appealed to a District court who seem to enjoy overturning a magistrates ruling and reduce the sentence to Good behaviour etc

 

[aussie7798]

<P>why are they over the top blacktip you try and pin something on someone else and it&nbsp;should carry a hefty sentence </P>
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<P>not only does it waste the polices time&nbsp;it drags someone elses name through the mud and&nbsp;what happens if they believe you and they lock them up even under suspicion let alone get a conviction</P>
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[Miller was a legend]

Wat tha?