Posted by Editor on August 9, 2023 – 7:36 pm
Sri Lankan Cricketer Danushka Gunathilaka. (Dan Himbrechts / AAP PHOTOS)
Sri Lankan cricketer Danushka Gunthilaka, who has been stranded in Australia for higher than eight months, might be allowed to journey domestically after his bail circumstances had been eased on Tuesday (August 08).
Danushka Gunathilaka wore black pants and a black heavy jacket when he appeared in Sydney Downing Centre District Court docket docket on Tuesday to ask the courtroom docket for leniency on his bail.
He has beforehand pleaded not accountable to raping a woman in her Sydney residence whereas he was throughout the nation for the T20 World Cup remaining yr.
The cricketer was arrested and charged in November remaining yr as he able to fly residence to Sri Lanka collectively along with his teammates, and he has since been prevented from leaving the nation.
He was granted bail on November 17 with strict circumstances that he hand over his passport and by no means technique any worldwide stage of departure.
On Tuesday, the 32-year-old requested the courtroom docket to vary his bail to allow him to journey inside Australia on two occasions this month.
Performing Resolve Graeme Henson agreed to allow Mr Gunathilaka to droop the prohibition on approaching worldwide departure elements for 4 days this week and 4 days on the end of the month.
He stipulated that the cricketer ought to notify police not lower than 48 hours prematurely with the size of his journey, the state of affairs, and an itinerary if he plans to journey inside Australia.
Nonetheless, the 32-year-old continues to be required to report again to police 3 instances per week and solely allowed to personal one cellular phone.
He is prohibited from using relationship web sites or apps on account of allegations in the direction of him.
Police allege the cricketer matched with a woman on a relationship app and chatted alongside together with her quite a few situations on-line sooner than they met.
The pair had drinks throughout the metropolis sooner than they went once more to the woman’s residence throughout the jap suburbs of Sydney spherical 11pm, in line with police.
Mr Gunathilaka allegedly ignored the woman’s request to “take it sluggish” and as a substitute sexually assaulted the 29-year-old woman in her residence.
Police allege the cricketer engaged in “forceful” intercourse with the woman all through which he choked the woman 3 instances.
The woman knowledgeable police she was “too afraid to do one thing” and she or he had solely consented to sexual exercise with the cricket star if he agreed to placed on a condom.
The woman later found the condom on the bottom beside the mattress, in line with police.
The courtroom docket was knowledgeable the sexual assault price related to “stealthing”, the non-consensual eradicating of a condom all through intercourse.
He’s due to face a judge-alone trial in September.
(Provide: Sky Data)
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