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NRL star Burgess guilty of intimidating ex-wife’s father
Friday February 05, 2021
Former South Sydney NRL captain Sam Burgess has been convicted of intimidating his then wife’s father, former mining lobbyist Mitchell Hooke.
Burgess and his ex-wife Phobe (ABC photo)
A NSW magistrate on Friday found the 32-year-old had yelled “f*** you, I’m going to get you” 20 centimetres from Hooke’s face during an expletive-riddled rage, sparked when Burgess was asked to leave the Hookes’ Southern Highlands property in October 2019.
“I accept Mr Hooke was terrified, that his whole body went cold,” magistrate Robert Rabbidge said in Moss Vale…
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