Former Man of Steel Ben Barba has been arrested and charged with assaulting a man in a Mackay pub.
The Courier Mail reports that Barba allegedly punched his wife’s brother and faces charges of assault occasioning actual bodily harm.
The 30-year-old is currently banned indefinitely from playing rugby league after CCTV footage caught him in an aggressive altercation with his wife last year.
He pleaded guilty to two counts of public nuisance in May for that incident at a Townsville casino.
A former Dally M Medal winner, Barba was released by Cronulla Sharks in 2016 after receiving a 12-game recreational drugs ban just days after winning the NRL Premiership.
In May 2017, he signed for St Helens and was Super League’s stand-out player by the end of the 2018 season.
His form earned him a big-money move to the North Queensland Cowboys, but Barba failed to play a game for the club after he was deregistered by the NRL for the altercation with his wife.
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Ben Barba arrested and charged with assault
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Ben Barba arrested and charged with assault
Anyone can support a team when it is winning, that takes no courage.
But to stand behind a team, to defend a team when it is down and really needs you,
that takes a lot of courage. #18thMan
But to stand behind a team, to defend a team when it is down and really needs you,
that takes a lot of courage. #18thMan
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Idiot... hopefully the correctional system will rehabilitate him somewhat
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And the “kind of rugby player you’d want to be in your dreams” James Leytham
Should be in the Wigan Warriors Hall
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Re: Ben Barba arrested and charged with assault
What a surprise! Off down Malcolm Alker route this lad!
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Some people never learn. He needs to grow up
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Of course Wigan have never had players who have offended more than once have they? 