Tennis star Nick Kyrgios pleaded guilty to shoving ex-girlfriend Chiara Passari in 2021 but the charge was dismissed in a Canberra court.
The tennis star fronted the ACT Magistrates Court on Friday where a bid to have the assault charge thrown out on mental health grounds was rejected.
But magistrate Beth Campbell threw out the charge, accepting the seriousness of the matter was “low-level” and indicating Kyrgios was not a risk of reoffending. Kyrgios arrived at the ACT Magistrates Court on crutches from an injury sustained at this year’s Australian Open.was charged with a late-night incident from January 10, 2021 where he pushed over his ex-girlfriend Chiara Passari following an argument outside her apartment in inner-city Canberra suburb Kingston.
The court heard Ms Passari was standing in the door of an Uber preventing Kyrgios from leaving when he pushed her over.Ms Passari reported shoulder pain along with grazing on her knee. Kyrgios had told Ms Passari to “leave me the f*** alone” and to “just f***ing piss off” while she asked him to get out of the car and to calm down.Ms Passari didn’t report the incident until 10 months later, when the couple split after getting back together following the incident.
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