St George Illawarra star Junior Amone was the ‘major aggressor’ in a violent assault on a tradie final month, a courtroom heard on Friday.
The Dragons younger gun was arrested on Thursday after it was alleged he confronted two roofing contractors working close to his household residence in Warrawong, a suburb of Wollongong.
The 20-year-old was allegedly armed with a hammer and joined his father Talatau and a 3rd particular person within the assault and reportedly urged them to ‘Get the f***ing c**t’ because the alleged sufferer lay on the bottom.
St George Illawarra star Junior Amone has been launched on bail after being charged of attacking a roofing contractor with a hammer final month
The alleged assault left Jay King, one of many contractors, with severe accidents together with damaged arms and a broken hip.
Amone was charged with recklessly inflicting grievous bodily hurt in firm and remanded in custody on Thursday, earlier than being launched on a $100,000 bail on Friday.
The cost carries a most of 14 years in jail.
The St George playmaker was initially formally denied bail, however Prosecutor Sergeant Chris Manning mentioned in courtroom on Friday that police did not oppose Amone’s launch from custody so long as strict bail circumstances had been met.
Amone was arrested on Thursday and initially refused bail, earlier than being launched on a $100,000 surety on Friday after approval from the police
A number of family and friends members attended the courtroom proceedings on Friday to help the younger playmaker.
His father was additionally arrested over the identical incident, however the bail request for Amone Senior was denied on the time and he stays in custody.
It is alleged the assault occurred on November 15 this 12 months close to the star’s residence in Wollongong on the NSW south coast.
Courtroom paperwork allege King turned concerned in a dispute with Amone’s father about the place he parked his automobile earlier than each Amones and an unidentified man confronted him.
The Dragons have launched a press release saying the matter involving Amone has been referred to the NRL Integrity Unit
It is alleged Junior was armed with a hammer, which he swung on the sufferer.
The tradesman then allegedly ran to a close-by property and climbed onto the roof to flee, however was adopted by the St George five-eight, who swung the hammer at him.
Its’ alleged the sufferer fell off the roof because of this and struck an air-conditioning unit as he fell. The alleged sufferer was chased to a different residence, the paperwork state, the place he collapsed and known as Triple Zero.
The paperwork allege a police canine squad officer arrived on the scene and noticed the Dragons man on the roof, nonetheless armed with the hammer.
It is also alleged that the youthful Amone and the unknown male jumped on the roof of the tradesman’s car, damaging the automobile and breaking the windscreen.
Amone’s father Talatau (proper) has additionally been charged over the identical incident
Amone was initially formally refused bail after being charged with inflicting grievous bodily hurt (in firm) destroy or harm property and intimidation
The Dragons launched a press release saying the matter has been referred to the NRL Integrity Unit.
Amone made headlines earlier this week when footage emerged of the Dragons star combating teammate Zac Lomax in a coaching floor bust up.
Imaginative and prescient recorded by a fan confirmed Lomax and Amone having to be separated after an unsightly confrontation through the membership’s three-day camp at Mollymook, round 200km south of Sydney.
‘They’re younger boys who did not need to let certainly one of them get excessive of the opposite. They do not need anybody to get in entrance of them for a spot,’ Aaron Woods instructed the Each day Telegraph.
