Granty
23-02-2006, 12:21 AM
http://foxsports.news.com.au/story/0,8659,18244340-23214,00.html
NRL stars charged with poaching
February 22, 2006
FORMER rugby league stars Terry Hill and Scott Fulton face a large fine and possibly jail after being accused of tampering with lobster pots.
The brothers-in-law were allegedly caught in a NSW Fisheries sting lifting a commercial fisherman's lobster pots on Sydney's Hawkesbury River on December 29.
The Daily Telegraph reports the former NRL Manly Sea Eagles teammates both have been charged with seven counts of interfering with set fishing gear.
Each charge carries a $5,500 fine.
The pair also have been accused of using more personal pots than allowed.
If found guilty of using more than the one personal pot, the pair face a $22,000 fine and six months in jail.
Hill claimed he and Fulton were not aware of what the fisherman's pots were when they pulled them.
"There's no drama," he is quoted as saying. "It's not as though we were stealing his lobsters."
The pair is due to appear in Gosford Local Court in April
AAP
NRL stars charged with poaching
February 22, 2006
FORMER rugby league stars Terry Hill and Scott Fulton face a large fine and possibly jail after being accused of tampering with lobster pots.
The brothers-in-law were allegedly caught in a NSW Fisheries sting lifting a commercial fisherman's lobster pots on Sydney's Hawkesbury River on December 29.
The Daily Telegraph reports the former NRL Manly Sea Eagles teammates both have been charged with seven counts of interfering with set fishing gear.
Each charge carries a $5,500 fine.
The pair also have been accused of using more personal pots than allowed.
If found guilty of using more than the one personal pot, the pair face a $22,000 fine and six months in jail.
Hill claimed he and Fulton were not aware of what the fisherman's pots were when they pulled them.
"There's no drama," he is quoted as saying. "It's not as though we were stealing his lobsters."
The pair is due to appear in Gosford Local Court in April
AAP