Two police officers deny attacking Canberra Raiders NRL player Tom Starling during a wild brawl.
Defence lawyer Warwick Anderson told Gosford Local Court today Senior Constable Steven Lockwood Brown, 49, and Sergeant Evan Huw Prowse, 37, will plead not guilty to assaulting Starling.
The officers have each been charged with one count of assaulting Tom Starling between 11.01pm and 11.03pm on December 5, 2020, while Prowse is facing an additional charge of assaulting Starling's brother Jackson.Outside court, Anderson said the officers would be vigorously defending the charges. Warwick acknowledged the two officers had seen parts of the CCTV footage from Shady Palms but would wait to see what was in the police brief of evidence.Starling's lawyer Samar Singh-Panwar told a previous court hearing the footballer had been diagnosed with post traumatic stress disorder following the incident.Starling and his brothers Josh, 27, and Jackson, 22, had been out celebrating a friend's 21st birthday when the brawl broke out with security guards and police at Shady Palms.
A Sydney magistrate found Tom and Jackson Starling not guilty in February 2023 of resisting or hindering police in the execution of their duty during the Shady Palms brawl and Josh not guilty of two counts of assaulting police.
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