Post by dragon4 on Feb 26, 2020 17:15:38 GMT
Sydney Oiler's star Josh Reynolds has been cleared of domestic violence allegations after New South Wales Police dropped all charges against him.
The Oilers utility was accused of assaulting his ex-partner in September, but police have now told Reynolds that the case will no longer be investigated.
A club statement said Reynolds was “relieved this matter is now behind him” and that he is “fully focused for this weekend’s match against the Gold Coast Crusade”.
Sydney Oilers CEO Roger Bossert added: “This news comes as a great relief to Josh as well as our club.”
Reynolds has continued plying his trade on the playing field since the charges were made.
Following today’s news, the 30-year-old is free to continue playing in the 2019/2020 ASRL season and is likely to be named in the Oilers squad for their Round 17 clash against the Crusade..
In a statement released by his lawyers, Reynolds said: “The last nine weeks since I was charged has been one of the most tumultuous and difficult periods of my life.
“I was always an innocent man and I am happy the legal system has proved this. I am relieved in the fact that I can now get on with my life and move forward.”
Godd Treenberg sat in his office at Rugby League Central last month alongside Sydney Oiler's chief executive Roger Bossert and head of football Adam Hartigan, waiting for Josh Reynolds to arrive.
The meeting, which was desperately organised by Reynolds, was the five-eighth's last-ditch bid to convince Treenberg to allow him to continue playing in the ASRL despite a domestic violence charge hanging over his head.
Charges have been dropped against Josh Reynolds just two weeks out from the end of the ASRL regular season.
Organised for 10am, there was still an empty seat at 10.15am and a few phone calls later, none of which were answered, it became apparent to everyone in the room that something wasn't right.
Nobody could track him down. Not the club, not even his own manager.
The meeting was weeks in the making, but by the time Christmas break was over and everyone was back into routine, Reynolds had all but given up.
He knew the game's strong position on any charges relating to women, and regardless of how innocent he knew he was, privately he couldn't shake the feeling that the ASRL would not risk a potential public relations disaster by backing their player against a woman claiming injuries at the hands of a footballer.
He had confided in those closest to him that if the ASRL stood him down, he would walk. Walk away from rugby league. Walk away from the remaining two years of his Sydney Oilers deal. Walk away from it all.
On the eve of the meeting with Treenberg that he'd waited nearly six weeks for............... it all became too much.!
Reynolds never turned up to that meeting because, frankly, he wasn't in a state to do so. Nor was he in a state to answer the flurry of phone calls that followed the morning he was meant to show.
He had drowned his sorrows the night before, struggling to combat an overwhelming feeling that the game he so dearly loved, was about to turn its back on him.
Reynolds tried. He wanted his story out there. After all, he had nothing to hide. But he hit legal road blocks at every turn.
So he resorted to subliminal messages through Instagram, which to those unfamiliar with the backstory meant diddly squat.
Reynolds cares, probably too much, of what people think of him. Always has. It's why the charges, which on Wednesday were dropped by police, ate away at him to the point where he'd lost the appetite to fight for himself.
This is a man who, weeks before charges were laid against him, marched into an ASRL Disciplinary neeting to warn the governing body of the mess that was about to unfold.
Just two months later he'd lost the desire to march himself back in and defend what he once fought so desperately to keep. Treenberg reached out to him in the ensuing days, more to check on his welfare than anything else. On Wednesday he called him again.
Reynolds' story was so unbelievable that even the player himself didn't know where to start. But when Channel Nine reported how his former partner Arabella del Busso, had allegedly had faked pregnancies and family deaths with Reynolds and used multiple aliases over the years, the Instagram stories began to make sense. And for Reynolds, so did life.
Then Treenberg did what Reynolds hoped he would, but feared he wouldn't. He considered all the evidence and backed him. He applied discretion, not a need to uphold consistency.
“I knew I was going to feel great when I got a result," Reynolds told Channel 9 on Wednesday night after charges against him were dropped.
"I obviously can’t explain the feeling, I’ve had so many ups and downs over this last year and a bit. To get this news today, it’s the best news I’ve had in a long time. It’s shocking and scary".
The Oilers utility was accused of assaulting his ex-partner in September, but police have now told Reynolds that the case will no longer be investigated.
A club statement said Reynolds was “relieved this matter is now behind him” and that he is “fully focused for this weekend’s match against the Gold Coast Crusade”.
Sydney Oilers CEO Roger Bossert added: “This news comes as a great relief to Josh as well as our club.”
Reynolds has continued plying his trade on the playing field since the charges were made.
Following today’s news, the 30-year-old is free to continue playing in the 2019/2020 ASRL season and is likely to be named in the Oilers squad for their Round 17 clash against the Crusade..
In a statement released by his lawyers, Reynolds said: “The last nine weeks since I was charged has been one of the most tumultuous and difficult periods of my life.
“I was always an innocent man and I am happy the legal system has proved this. I am relieved in the fact that I can now get on with my life and move forward.”
Godd Treenberg sat in his office at Rugby League Central last month alongside Sydney Oiler's chief executive Roger Bossert and head of football Adam Hartigan, waiting for Josh Reynolds to arrive.
The meeting, which was desperately organised by Reynolds, was the five-eighth's last-ditch bid to convince Treenberg to allow him to continue playing in the ASRL despite a domestic violence charge hanging over his head.
Charges have been dropped against Josh Reynolds just two weeks out from the end of the ASRL regular season.
Organised for 10am, there was still an empty seat at 10.15am and a few phone calls later, none of which were answered, it became apparent to everyone in the room that something wasn't right.
Nobody could track him down. Not the club, not even his own manager.
The meeting was weeks in the making, but by the time Christmas break was over and everyone was back into routine, Reynolds had all but given up.
He knew the game's strong position on any charges relating to women, and regardless of how innocent he knew he was, privately he couldn't shake the feeling that the ASRL would not risk a potential public relations disaster by backing their player against a woman claiming injuries at the hands of a footballer.
He had confided in those closest to him that if the ASRL stood him down, he would walk. Walk away from rugby league. Walk away from the remaining two years of his Sydney Oilers deal. Walk away from it all.
On the eve of the meeting with Treenberg that he'd waited nearly six weeks for............... it all became too much.!
Reynolds never turned up to that meeting because, frankly, he wasn't in a state to do so. Nor was he in a state to answer the flurry of phone calls that followed the morning he was meant to show.
He had drowned his sorrows the night before, struggling to combat an overwhelming feeling that the game he so dearly loved, was about to turn its back on him.
Reynolds tried. He wanted his story out there. After all, he had nothing to hide. But he hit legal road blocks at every turn.
So he resorted to subliminal messages through Instagram, which to those unfamiliar with the backstory meant diddly squat.
Reynolds cares, probably too much, of what people think of him. Always has. It's why the charges, which on Wednesday were dropped by police, ate away at him to the point where he'd lost the appetite to fight for himself.
This is a man who, weeks before charges were laid against him, marched into an ASRL Disciplinary neeting to warn the governing body of the mess that was about to unfold.
Just two months later he'd lost the desire to march himself back in and defend what he once fought so desperately to keep. Treenberg reached out to him in the ensuing days, more to check on his welfare than anything else. On Wednesday he called him again.
Reynolds' story was so unbelievable that even the player himself didn't know where to start. But when Channel Nine reported how his former partner Arabella del Busso, had allegedly had faked pregnancies and family deaths with Reynolds and used multiple aliases over the years, the Instagram stories began to make sense. And for Reynolds, so did life.
Then Treenberg did what Reynolds hoped he would, but feared he wouldn't. He considered all the evidence and backed him. He applied discretion, not a need to uphold consistency.
“I knew I was going to feel great when I got a result," Reynolds told Channel 9 on Wednesday night after charges against him were dropped.
"I obviously can’t explain the feeling, I’ve had so many ups and downs over this last year and a bit. To get this news today, it’s the best news I’ve had in a long time. It’s shocking and scary".