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Rugby league pundit Paul Kent has been sacked from his commentary jobs after being filmed allegedly collaborating in a wild road brawl exterior a Sydney lodge.
Kent was dismissed by each Fox Sports activities, the place he was a pugnacious presenter on NRL 360, and Information Corp, for which he wrote common columns in The Day by day Telegraph.
The 54-year-old is because of face Downing Centre Native Court docket on Wednesday, having indicated he’ll search to have a cost of affray handled on psychological well being grounds.
Police allege Kent and 35-year-old Tamer Uzun turned concerned in a verbal argument which turned bodily exterior the Three Weeds at Rozelle within the metropolis’s inner-west about 11pm on April 27.
Footage of the altercation allegedly captured Kent calling Uzun a ‘doghead’ and charging in direction of him as bystanders tried to intervene.
The conflict spilled throughout the road as Kent appeared to attempt to punch Uzun earlier than being thrown right into a tree and touchdown headfirst within the gutter.
Kent’s lawyer George Elias instructed a Justice of the Peace in Might his shopper would cite cognitive impairment in his defence as he sought remedy for psychological well being and ingesting issues.
‘Within the after hours of this alleged incident he sought pressing counselling,’ Mr Elias stated. ‘He has been seeing his GP who has referred him to Burwood Hospital.’
Rugby league pundit Paul Kent (above) has been sacked from his commentary jobs within the wake of being filmed allegedly collaborating in a wild road brawl exterior a Sydney lodge
Justice of the Peace Scott Nash agreed to a six-week adjournment for Kent to obtain a remedy plan from a brand new physician and dismissed his bail reporting situations.
Kent was stood down by Fox Sports activities and Information Corp the day after the alleged brawl ‘pending a right away investigation’.
The Australian reported on Monday that Kent had since parted methods with each employers.
A spokesman for Information Corp and a spokeswoman for Fox Sports activities stated neither firm commented about employment issues.
Kent didn’t reply to repeated makes an attempt to contact him however Day by day Mail Australia has confirmed he was sacked a number of weeks in the past.
Uzun confronted Downing Centre Native Court docket in June when he pleaded not responsible to affray over his alleged function within the melee exterior the pub.
Lawyer Bryan Wrench stated he had obtained CCTV of Kent ingesting at a close-by lodge within the lead as much as the confrontation together with his shopper.
‘The footage exhibits the opposite get together ingesting 21 schooners and shadow boxing previous to the incident,’ Mr Wrench stated. ‘The opposite particular person is Mr Paul Kent.
‘We are saying that our shopper will not be the assailant.’
Day by day Mail Australia understands the CCTV footage was filmed on the Sackville Lodge the place Kent is an everyday drinker.
Uzun’s matter has been adjourned till July 19, and Mr Wrench stated he can be writing to police searching for to request the cost in opposition to him be withdrawn.
In December final yr Kent was discovered not responsible of choking and assaulting a former girlfriend.
Following his acquittal Kent instructed reporters exterior courtroom he was desperate to return to a ‘regular life’.
‘The decide accepted what occurred to the purpose that my barrister was not even required to make a ultimate summation,’ he stated on the time.
‘It has been seven months I’ve needed to sit there and really feel like I have been unfairly arrested [and] unfairly charged, and I’ve needed to sit there and have our public popularity lacerated by individuals who have used it as a chance.
‘The reality is on the market, lastly. It has been an enormous price to me, it has been an enormous set again in my life. However, we have all bought our struggles in life.
‘That is my one at present, so it is as much as me now to regroup and get again to my regular life. I can lastly depart this all behind.’
