WEST Tigers halfback Robert Lui is back together with his pregnant girlfriend - who he is accused of assaulting, robbing and trying to choke in the hours after his team was knocked out of the NRL finals. Lui has successfully applied for a variation to his bail conditions so that he can contact Taleah Rae Backo, who is five months pregnant with their child, and return to their home in Abbotsford, in Sydney's Inner West.
Ms Backo, 21, sat quietly during the application in Burwood Local Court yesterday. The court was told she did not oppose his application.
Lui, 20, sat on the opposite side of the courtroom and the couple left in separate cars.
He has been charged with nine offences, including two counts of assault occasioning actual bodily harm, three of common assault, one of malicious damage, one of choking with intent to commit an indictable offence, one of detaining for advantage and one of aggravated robbery.
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Lui, who was stood down by the club after being charged, went to Campsie police station in the early hours of September 26, after the Tigers lost their preliminary final 13-12 to St George Illawarra.
After being charged by police, Lui was granted bail of $6000 on the condition he did not contact Ms Backo and that he reside at an address at Chiswick.
Lui has vowed to vigorously defend the charges, but did not comment to media as he left the court yesterday.
Under his revised bail conditions, Lui must continue to comply with an interim apprehended violence order, including that he not assault, intimidate or harass Ms Backo. The matter was adjourned to December 20.
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