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Liam Jurrah: charged, on bail and discussion closed for now

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Thankfully it doesn't sound like serious charges if he is being allowed to return to Melbourne. But the fact that he is facing charges will mean the club will have to reprimand him in some way. But still plenty more information to come.

He won't be charged.

 

I have no idea what has happened and will not embrace the conjecture.

Let's just calm down and stay by the wireless.

I will stand by Liam until the facts tell me not to.

I hope it turns out better than your last defence of a Melbourne player :)

I do hope the best for Liam.
 

I hope it turns out better than your last defence of a Melbourne player :)

Best post of the thread by far.

rpfc won't be happy!

regardless of what he did or didn't do, and whether or not he gets in trouble for it, you'd have to think his footy career is over. Clearly the bloke has higher priorities if he's engaged in actual physical war in central australia

when he first came to the club many said it would be a miracle if he made it as a player, well looks like we didn't get such a miracle

fantastic advertisement for the already-malinged indigenous people of this country too


This will all blow over, he may or may not be charged either way he'll end up with a slap on the wrist.

I think the real question is can he juggle being a pro footballer along with his tribal commitments. Given that state of the place it must be hard for him.

regardless of what he did or didn't do, and whether or not he gets in trouble for it, you'd have to think his footy career is over. Clearly the bloke has higher priorities if he's engaged in actual physical war in central australia

when he first came to the club many said it would be a miracle if he made it as a player, well looks like we didn't get such a miracle

fantastic advertisement for the already-malinged indigenous people of this country too

Calm down everyone, Captain Optimism is here to save the day.

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I dont care were your from everyone is on the same playing field and everyone must follow club rules and the laws of this country. If liam broke the law or club rules there will be punishment to fit the crime. At this early stage liam looks like he might be in a bit of trouble and the club will be the last thing on his mind. Very sad

So you value the rules of a recreational sporting club over the rules of one of the oldest cultures in the world? I suggest you broaden your perspective a little bit. Of course, ideally Liam would have been able to fulfil his commitment to Australian, tribal and football law. But the first two take precedence in my opinion.

Everyone's had their say, I'm locking this thread and will reopen it when the situation is clearer.

Let's hope for the best possible outcome.


Pretty serious charges. Have we got any legal people on here that can let us know what to expect?

still can't believe what's going on.

It's possible he will never return to the club.....................................oh what could he be?


Details?

Two 23 year old men have been charged with 3 offences. 2 of them relate to intentional and reckless cause of bodily harm or something like that and the 3rd charge is the possession of the weapon (being that of the machete).

Even listening to SEN Tim Watsons tone talking about it is nothing short of sadness. I remain optimistic still but I'm losing it by the minute.

What exactly has he been charged with?

On ABC's Radio National, a reporter just said the biographer of Liam's book and an MFC representative (not named) would be flying to Alice Springs today in order to pick up Liam and fly back with him to Melbourne immediately.

It was also reported that the dispute seems to involve 'two sides' of Jurrah's family. The policeman interviewed refused to confirm whether it related to an episode (I think last year) where a man was stabbed to death. He also confirmed that the victim had very serious lacerations to his head that would involve emergency reconstructive surgery in either Alice Springs or Darwin later today.

The 3 serious charges are

i) To intend serious harm w/ weapon

ii) Causing serious harm w/ weapon

iii) Possession and usage of a prohibited and dangerous weapon.

A friend of mine will be getting back to me today. He's a detective in the Alice Springs police.

He also assured me there are quite a few Demon supporters in the force there.

Hopefully he only gets the reckless charge and not the other two.


Devastating and tragic for all concerned, hope somehow Liam can get through this, whatever that may mean.

Speechless.

I'm am trying very hard, while struggling, not to pass judgement until it all comes out by letting justice run it's course etc. But seriously, a machete. A bit of fistycuffs you could understand, but a machete. I won't buy any of the tribal law stuff, you don't take a machete unless you have something serious planned. Hoping against hope more comes to light to prove Liam isn't in as much strife as it sounds, but to be honest it doesn't look good.

 

I refuse to believe that Jurrah would be the one swinging the machete.... However if he was there he is an accessory and would see jail time.

The amount of times I have defended Liam in my life when ignorant morons say "when is he going to go walkabout?" etc.

This just upsets me greatly.... As now I am sure we will here in our general life about how it was always going to happen.

What annoys me is that the entire nation is going nuts over the whole KONY thing because it's cool, but everyone will continually ignore the extremely serious issues in our own backyard up north. Instead the masses will go on thinking that the indigenous community are just savages and we will never really do anything to help them.

Liam has been given an amazing life and opportunity, if it has been wasted it will be an extremely dark day for the club, Liam and in my opinion our nation.

I simply must believe he wasn't directly involved, unfortunately I believe being an accessory is the best possible outcomes.

I don't understand why people continue to post things like "I don't know the full details, but..." You either wait for the full details to emerge or you don't, there's no real in between and no good comes from prematurely hypothesizing.

I also get that this is an MFC site, but how the MFC is people's first thought on hearing a young man is in custody is sad IMO. The MFC's concerns are a distant second (or wherever) here.


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