Rik E Boy wrote:Booney wrote:Today fish wrapper has some interesting allegations.
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http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/nati ... 7142070154FORMER Carlton midfielder Nick Stevens was a regular drug user and supplied cocaine to his former partner, a court heard.
Stevens is facing 30 assault charges including allegations he slammed his former partner’s head against a wall and a kitchen bench.
The woman said she feared for her life after Stevens slammed her head repeatedly against a kitchen wall and threatened to kill her and her family.
Giving evidence his former partner said in an earlier incident Stevens grabbed her by the throat, held her down on the couch then punched her in the chest eight to 10 times, after she confronted him about his alleged infidelity.
The alleged attack happened after Stevens had spent the day drinking with his cricket mates in Traralgon. The woman said she had checked his phone at night and after discovering a message threw water at the sleeping Stevens.
Under cross examination today the woman said Stevens could “drink more than anyone she had even known”.
She said Nick or his friends would supply her with cocaine and she took it once every two months. She told the court Stevens would also use drugs.
Stevens, who now coaches Glenelg told the Herald Sun earlier he had aspirations to coach in the AFL, denies the allegations.
The woman said the relationship with Stevens turned violent in January 2012 and there were seven violent outbursts in the two years they were together.
The woman said she didn’t leave the allegedly abusive relationship because she loved Stevens and “didn’t want to lose him.”
“I wanted to stay with Nick. We were good together in our good times so I wanted to stay with him.”
She said the violence got progressively worst and culminated on February 10, 2013 when the former midfielder repeatedly slammed her head against a wall in their Traralgon home.
The woman said she confronted Stevens again about his cheating, he then pushed her into the kitchen and forced her head onto the kitchen bench.
“He picked my head up again and slammed me against the tile wall five or six times.”
The woman told the court that during the February 10 incident Stevens smashed her phone, threw a chair at her and threatened to kill her and her father after she had phoned her parents.
They stayed together after the attack because the women said she loved Stevens and wanted to believe him when he told her he wouldn’t do it again.
But she said at her parents’ Park Orchards home on April 27 that year he slammed her head against a brick wall. The court was shown pictures of her injuries following the alleged attack.
The Ringwood Magistrates’ Court heard Stevens often called her a “drunk psycho” and claimed she was manipulating and controlling.
“He liked to put me down like that,” she said.
His barrister Serge Petrovich said the allegations was just her “vindictive and manipulative personality trying to maximise damage to her reputation.”
When told Stevens would deny all the assaults she replied “he is a liar.”
Stevens’ barrister Serge Petrovich repeatedly told the witness she was making up the allegations in a vindictive attempt to harm him.
“What you have done in this court room you have exaggerated, made stuff up because you know the damage it will do to his career.
The court was shown photos of her injuries following the alleged assault but Mr Petrovich asked if she had inflicted them on herself.
The former midfielder, 34, who played 231 games for Carlton and Port Adelaide, is in Ringwood Magistrates’ Court facing 43 charges relating to assault, making threats to kill and contacting a witness in a criminal investigation.
The case will continue next week.
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