Today in the Invercargill District Court Judge Michael Turner convicted Southland Stags player Nelson Ngaluafe, 21, (above) on charges of assaulting a female and intentional damage.
Despite attempts to be
discharged without conviction Ngaluafe, described in court as a ''Jekkyl and Hyde''
character, was fined $500 and
sentenced to nine months supervision.
Although Ngaluafe has no
previous criminal convictions it came up in court Ngaluafe was involved in an
altercation in Queenstown in 2011 in which he was charged and granted police
diversion.
Diversion and now supervision,
how many ‘lives’ does he have?
To cut and paste the Southland
Times report which reads like other similar cases, the overtones are always the
same: rugby player gets drunk after game and throws his weight around…..
The judge said Ngaluafe began
drinking after a rugby game on April 27 and had continued drinking until 2am
when he walked out of an Invercargill tavern heavily intoxicated.
He approached a parked car in
which a man and a 17-year-old woman were sitting, and without provocation, he
racially abused the woman, calling her a ''white b#@tch''. He had never met her
before.
She said ''excuse me'', and
Ngaluafe grabbed her and tried to drag her out the car window before the male
driver intervened, the judge said.
Ngaluafe then walked to the
driver's side of the car and smashed the window with his elbow.
Police arrived on the scene
and arrested him.
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