Pomersbach charged with assault after chase through dunes

[Howsie]

A star Australian cricketer has been charged over a bizarre series of incidents involving police in the Perth suburb of City Beach.

Police allege Luke Pomersbach, 24, who is contracted to the Western Warriors and represented Australia in 2007, was involved in two hit-and-run accidents and assaulted a police officer at his City Beach home last night

http://www.smh.com.au/news/sport/cricket/2009/08/10/1249756240158.html

Wow, his career could pretty much be over. Anyone know if that would get him serious jail time?

 

[Covvy]

Hopefully this can be resolved, he's gonna be a good player when he gets older.

 

[aussie1st]

He is young enough to comeback from this (I can't see him avoiding jail time), but he is going to need some serious work off the field and then he'll have to find his Cricket motivation.

 

[Covvy]

This reminds me of Ben Cousins (AFL) a few years back.

 

[smssia0112]

Probably a suspended sentence I'd guess, although it isn't his first off-field indiscretion. Looks like we'll be waiting a bit longer on his answers to our interview questions.

 

[Cricketdude]

But no one cares about druggies.

 

[Aditya]

Yes agree with cricketdudemad no body cares about druggirst biggest example shoaib akhtar.

 

[Hooper]

But no one cares about druggies.

WTF?

What a clown, why would you run away from it? Only makes it worse.

He won't get jail time for that, probably just lose his license for a long time and get hit with a juicy fine.

LOL at trying to hide in the dunes but then getting caught.

 

[Insomniac]

You don't get jail time in Australia for a DUI? Not even one night?

Amazing.

 

[Hooper]

Nah, my TAFE (College) mate was absolutely drunk and talking on the phone whilst driving (talking on mobile whilst driving is against the law here). He wasn't paying attention and drove straight through a roundabout, going straight over it, landing in a bush...

...All this with the cops directly behind him. He didn't even see them he was that wasted.

All they did was take his license away from him for a year, he got a year because of previous offences.

 

[Insomniac]

Prehaps a stronger punishment would cause people to think twice before being an idiot?

That is seriously weak, to be fairly honest. It endangers innocent people, which really isn't exactly fair now, is it?

 

[Howsie]

The Todd Carney case springs straight to mine for me. He was caught drink-driving so sped of and went through Canberra trying to get away from the police. Irrc he then tried to get his mate to take the wheel or something like that so he wouldn't get into trouble (It was something like that). It was pretty serious but being a famous sport star in Australia he pretty much got nothing but a slap on the wrist.


I bet you Pommas wont get anything to harsh.

 

[Will_NA]

If you're good enough at what you do, you won't get jailed as a sportsman.

Steven Gerrard, for example, was caught clearly on CCTV committing the crime he was accused of (battering a defenseless man) and got away scot-free. Same with Lee Bowyer and Jonathan Woodgate who battered a student and got away with it.

Joey Barton got bailed because he wasn't all that good at football and kept committing violent crimes.

 

[smssia0112]

Prehaps a stronger punishment would cause people to think twice before being an idiot?

That is seriously weak, to be fairly honest. It endangers innocent people, which really isn't exactly fair now, is it?

For a first time offender jail is unlikely. You might think that's soft, but I personally think that throwing a 20 something year old in jail because he made a stupid mistake is over the top.

 

[Howsie]

For a first time offender jail is unlikely. You might think that's soft, but I personally think that throwing a 20 something year old in jail because he made a stupid mistake is over the top.

Mistake, this is hardly a mistake. I would consider drink driving a mistake but what Pomersbach did is far worse. I agree that he shouldn't go to jail, but he should get some sort of big punishment.