Glory player charged with café assault

[travelling_gerry]

29th February 2008, 20:00 WST









Detectives have charged a Perth Glory player and another man with assault over an alleged attack at a Morley restaurant early on Monday morning.
Mirrabooka police were called to the Walter Road café about 2am after management reported Glory midfielder Mitchell Prentice and another man, Andrew Gondinoudis, were creating a disturbance with their rowdy behaviour. Police escorted the pair from the restaurant but alleged that when the officers left, the two returned and punched a customer to the head several times.
Mr Gondinoudis allegedly punched the 20-year-old café manager to the face several times, breaking his nose. Police say the men were stopped when the cook threw chilli powder in their faces.
Morley detectives today charged the 24-year-old soccer player with two counts of assault.
He will appear in the Perth Magistrate's Court on Thursday.Mr Gondinoudis, 27, of Dianella, was charged with one count of assault occasioning bodily harm and two counts of assault.
He will appear in the Perth Magistrate's Court on Wednesday.

[The Lone Hydrangea]

Well ill be!

[Darren]

I like GIGS20's take on it

A couple of Glory players were drinking to gether in a bar when one walked within a metre of the other.

The victim began writhing on the ground screaming and holding his leg until the police arrived to take statements, the police splashed some water on his leg at which point he recovered enough to tell his side of the story.

Names have been witheld at this point.

The victim was seen playing hacky sack later in the night!

[jono]

thats a bit more serious than henners! go on SMH.

[slomo]

will it make the front and back pages of tomorrows west?.....

[GIGS20]

Will the CEO of FFA call for an immediate sacking before hearing any evidence?

[travelling_gerry]

OUTRAGE OUTRAGE

[benny]

lucky john o'neil isn't with FFA now, otherwise it may be turned into another 'merry-go-round'

[BLR]

I suspect we will see another 'Wild Wild West' incident....starting with a brief summary of this and swiftly moving onto list all the Force transgressions...keep an eye of SMH everyone

[fulvio sammut]

Misery loves company...

[slomo]

i failed to see this story in any of the weekends papers, thats a bit strange.......

[kelv]

Is he on has 3rd or 4th chance like henjak?????????????

[Swee_82]

i failed to see this story in any of the weekends papers, thats a bit strange.......

It did make the West yesterday- in one of those tiny one-paragraph boxes usually reseved for amusing anecdotes and the like- this for allegedly hitting a member of the public.

[Flamethrower]

Ease up guys. He was frustrated because he doesn't have a proper Rectangular Stadium and someone at the café asked him what he thought about the new lemon the Gov. are going to build.

[GIGS20]

Does No8 have his phone number yet?