Sam Kerr He has been facing difficult times for several months. In addition to the serious knee injury he suffered at the beginning of the year and the doubt that his participation in the Euro Cup this summer generated, added the altercation he was involved in at the beginning of March with a taxi driver and, later, including a police officer whom he allegedly insulted by calling him a “stupid white bastard.”
The judge in the case announced that the Chelsea striker will have to wait until February 2025 for his criminal charges to be heard in a London court. In other words, the possibility of defending himself and clearing his name that he has for a while will have to wait. The Australian international is fighting to have the criminal charges overturned but has canceled his preliminary hearing, ruling it was “no longer necessary”.
The background of the conflict
Kerr is facing charges of willfully causing “racially aggravated harassment, alarm or distress to a police officer” after a night out with his teammates in London went wrong. At 3am on the night in question, just hours after Kerr scored a hat-trick of goals in a 3-2 FA Cup victory over Liverpool, Kerr allegedly threw up in a taxi and became involved in an invoice dispute . When the police were called, he allegedly called the officer assisting him a “stupid white bastard.”
“All issues between the parties have now been resolved,” said a London court clerk, according to a ‘news.com’ report. “The next date we have for the case is the trial date, February 3 of next year. The judge accepted that it would be that way administratively. There is no need for the hearing on Monday.”
Source: La Verdad
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