Disgraced footballer Nicky Winmar is appealing a six-month jail sentence for assaulting a woman in northern Victoria last year.
Last month, Winmar was found guilty of three counts of assault after he smashed a woman’s head against a door and dragged her by the hair in Cohuna, north of Bendigo.
At a plea hearing earlier this month, the victim, who cannot be identified, said Winmar’s attack had left her a “shadow of the person” she was.
Winmar has since been removed from the Australian Football Hall of Fame and a bronze statue of his response to racist abuse, which stood outside Perth Stadium in his home state, has been removed.
Today the 60-year-old was handed a six-month jail sentence with a 12-month community corrections order to be completed upon his release.
Magistrate Trieu Huynh said Winmar’s victim reported feeling broken and had told the court she could not understand how someone “could be so brutal”.
“Your actions were unprovoked and came seemingly out of nowhere,” Magistrate Huynh said.
The ABC doesn’t describe him as a proud Noongar man or even Aboriginal. We see what you did there, ABC.