Australia Great Michael Slater, Who Made Threats Of Self-Harm At Court, Gets 4-Year Jail Term

Michael Slater, the Australian cricket player, was sentenced Tuesday to four years in prison after pleading guilty to several accusations, including domestic violence, but will be allowed to walk freely after having served more than a year in detention. According to an ABC Sport report, his sentence was “partly suspended” due to the purged time. The 55 -year -old man was accused of more than a dozen offenses, including domestic violence, harassment or illegal intimidation, collapse in a home with intention at night, common aggression, occasionally aggression of bodily and suffocation or suffocation lesions.

The accusation declared to the district court of Marochydore, that alcohol “was a repeated characteristic with its offense as its behavior becomes more erratic”. “The court heard that Slater threatened self -harm as he warns the victim not to report harassment and he felt extremely frightening and exhausted by Slater’s behavior,” said the report.

The identity of the victim was not revealed in the report. He simply said that she was from the Noosa region (Queensland) and that she would have been subject to “aggression, strangulation, burglary and harassment” since 2023.

Judge Glen Cash described Slater as an alcoholic and warned that his rehabilitation “will not be easy”. “Your rehabilitation will not be easy – alcoholism is part of your makeup,” said Cash.

While the accusation asked for a five -year sentence with parole after three, the Slater lawyer pleaded for a reduced period, declaring that the suffocation incident was not of the most serious nature.

He added that Slater had been “calm, lucid and insightful” during his 375 days of guard, abstained from alcohol.

He argued that Slater should be sentenced to three years with immediate conditional release.

Cash judge noted that the Slater’s early guilt has shown “cooperation and remorse”.

The former right -handed Australian opener played 74 tests and 42 ODI between 1993 and 2003.

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