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Chelsea and Australia striker Sam Kerr pleaded no longer responsible to a charge of racially aggravated harassment in court on Monday.
Kerr is accused of ‘the utilization of insulting, threatening or abusive phrases that triggered apprehension or damage’ to a police officer in Twickenham, London aid in January.
She looked at Kingston Crown Court by strategy of video-hyperlink to verify her identification and submit a no longer responsible plea. Kerr can bask in to support a four-day trial in February 2025 in which two police officers will give evidence in opposition to her.
The 30-yr-historic’s defence is situation to be that she did no longer intend to reason anguish to PC Lovell.
Favor Judith Elaine Coello said to Kerr’s barrister: “I realize that the defence is that she did no longer intend to reason apprehension, harassment or damage to the officer, [her behaviour] did no longer quantity to it and it was once no longer racially aggravated.”
Kerr is presently recovering from an ACL injury sustained someday of Chelsea’s warmth-weather practising camp in Morocco aid in January about a weeks prior to the incident in build a query to. She is anticipated to leave out the comfort of the 2023/24 season and is unlikely to play underneath departing supervisor Emma Hayes again.
In 128 games all over all competitions for Chelsea, Kerr has scored ninety nine needs and gained ten major honours, including four successive Females’s Colossal League titles.
At global level, Kerr is Australia’s all-time main scorer with 69 needs in 128 games. She is situation to leave out this summer season’s Olympics in Paris due to her injury.
