WA: Tasmanian cricket selector facing sexual assault charge

AAP General News (Australia)
12-22-2009
WA: Tasmanian cricket selector facing sexual assault charge

EDS: Timeline on laying of charges corrected to October on police advice



PERTH, Dec 22 AAP - Former Tasmanian Tigers cricketer Glenn Hughes has been stood down
as a state selector after an incident in Perth led to him being charged with sexual assault.

Cricket Tasmania confirmed on Tuesday that Hughes, the 50-year-old younger brother
of former Test captain Kim Hughes, had been stood down from the three-member selection
panel pending the resolution of charges against him.

West Australian police said they could not release details of the allegations, and
would only say that Hughes was facing two charges, including one of sexual assault, in
relation to an incident at a Perth hotel in October.

The charges are expected to be heard in Perth Magistrates Court in March, a police
spokesman said.

Hughes, a right-handed batsman, scored 2,244 runs in 35 Sheffield Shield matches for
Tasmania after moving from WA in the 1980s.

Cricket Tasmania issued a one-paragraph statement saying he had been stood down from
"all selection duties and involvement with Tasmanian cricket teams or operations following
notification of an incident in Western Australia that has resulted in police charges".

"No further comment will be made as the matter is now before the courts," communications
co-ordinator Eve Curley said.

No replacement has been arranged and current selectors Michael Farrell and Roger Woolley
will continue as a two-member panel until the charges against Hughes are resolved, a Cricket
Tasmania spokesman said.

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