{"id":522967,"date":"2026-08-28T16:34:56","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T06:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=522967"},"modified":"2026-08-28T16:34:57","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T06:34:57","slug":"disgraced-afl-footballer-nicky-winmar-appealing-jail-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=522967","title":{"rendered":"Disgraced AFL footballer Nicky Winmar appealing jail term"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Disgraced footballer Nicky Winmar is appealing a <\/strong>six-month jail sentence <\/strong>for assaulting a woman in northern Victoria last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nicky Winmar was found guilty of assault last month.  (Supplied: Magistrates’ Court of Victoria)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Your actions were unprovoked and came seemingly out of nowhere,” Magistrate Huynh said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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