Latest twist in St Kilda scandal interests police
CHIEF Commissioner Simon Overland yesterday confirmed Victoria Police would investigate the teenager at the centre of a scandal that damaged the reputation of two St Kilda footballers and cost a prominent player agent his accreditation.
Kim Duthie, known as the St Kilda schoolgirl, now denies having sex or using drugs with disgraced agent Ricky Nixon.
Her retraction in a letter to the AFL Players Association has caught the attention of police.
Mr Overland said the investigation of Nixon over illicit drugs would continue, but Ms Duthie was also facing questions over her claims she lied about the extent of her relationship with the agent, who has been banned from practising for two years and is threatening to sue the AFLPA for "several million" dollars.
"If she has, in effect, changed her statement and recanted . . . that's something we have to look at, but again I'm not getting too caught up in what has been attributed to her through the media - we just have to work through the process and see where that finishes up," Mr Overland said.
Ms Duthie now claims she was under the influence of drugs when making the allegations in an interview with David Galbally QC, who investigated Nixon's behaviour for the AFLPA.
Last night, Ms Duthie said Nixon was drugged when filmed wearing only his underwear on her hotel bed at the height of the scandal in February.
Mr Galbally, who found Nixon had taken advantage of Ms Duthie and engaged in drug-taking and sex with her, dismissed the suggestion she was drug-affected when he interviewed her. Adding further intrigue is the involvement of the Nine Network personality Sam Newman, with the former Geelong great saying earlier this week he was acting as a mentor to the teenager.
But Newman last night said he had never met nor spoken to Duthie.
"I am not sure how I have been embroiled in this travelling caravan of entertainment, but let me say this. I have never met, spoken to, seen in person . . . or written to (her)," he told The Footy Show.
Source : the australian
CHIEF Commissioner Simon Overland yesterday confirmed Victoria Police would investigate the teenager at the centre of a scandal that damaged the reputation of two St Kilda footballers and cost a prominent player agent his accreditation.
Kim Duthie, known as the St Kilda schoolgirl, now denies having sex or using drugs with disgraced agent Ricky Nixon.
Her retraction in a letter to the AFL Players Association has caught the attention of police.
Mr Overland said the investigation of Nixon over illicit drugs would continue, but Ms Duthie was also facing questions over her claims she lied about the extent of her relationship with the agent, who has been banned from practising for two years and is threatening to sue the AFLPA for "several million" dollars.
"If she has, in effect, changed her statement and recanted . . . that's something we have to look at, but again I'm not getting too caught up in what has been attributed to her through the media - we just have to work through the process and see where that finishes up," Mr Overland said.
Ms Duthie now claims she was under the influence of drugs when making the allegations in an interview with David Galbally QC, who investigated Nixon's behaviour for the AFLPA.
Last night, Ms Duthie said Nixon was drugged when filmed wearing only his underwear on her hotel bed at the height of the scandal in February.
Mr Galbally, who found Nixon had taken advantage of Ms Duthie and engaged in drug-taking and sex with her, dismissed the suggestion she was drug-affected when he interviewed her. Adding further intrigue is the involvement of the Nine Network personality Sam Newman, with the former Geelong great saying earlier this week he was acting as a mentor to the teenager.
But Newman last night said he had never met nor spoken to Duthie.
"I am not sure how I have been embroiled in this travelling caravan of entertainment, but let me say this. I have never met, spoken to, seen in person . . . or written to (her)," he told The Footy Show.
Source : the australian
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