Former Sydney Swans player Elijah Taylor fined $5,000 for assaulting ex-girlfriend at Perth hotel – ABC News

Dumped Sydney Swans AFL player Elijah Taylor has been fined $5,000 for bashing his former girlfriend in what his lawyer claimed was a “loss of self control” by a frustrated, pilloried and emotionally overwhelmed teenager.
Key points:

• The court heard Elijah Taylor hit the woman on the back of her head
• Magistrate Deen Potter accepted Taylor was genuinely remorseful
• Taylor plans to move to Victoria to play in the VFL

Taylor, 19, has also been granted a spent conviction after he pleaded guilty to assaulting…

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