The disturbing downfall of former Australian Check cricketer Michael Slater has been laid naked in court docket, revealing months of alcohol-fuelled violence, stalking and threats in opposition to a girl within the Noosa area.
The 55-year-old confronted Maroochydore District Courtroom, the place he pleaded responsible to seven expenses, together with two counts of strangulation, stalking, assault, housebreaking, and illegal placing.
Decide Glen Money sentenced Slater to 4 years in jail however instantly launched him after time already served was taken into consideration, suspending the rest of his sentence for 5 years.
‘It is apparent, Mr Slater, that you’re an alcoholic,’ Decide Money stated.
‘Your rehabilitation is not going to be simple. Alcoholism is a part of your make-up.’
Slater, who spent greater than a yr in custody after being refused bail in 2024, now dangers returning to jail if he commits one other severe offence throughout the subsequent 5 years.
Michael Slater pictured exterior court docket after receiving a suspended four-year sentence for home violence offences
The previous Check cricket star pleaded responsible to expenses together with strangulation, stalking, assault, and housebreaking
Courtroom paperwork revealed harrowing particulars of the months-long marketing campaign of abuse between December 2023 and March 2024.
On December 10, 2023, after an evening of ingesting at his house, Slater accused the girl of seeing different males with out foundation.
The scenario turned violent when he seized her telephone, kicked her thigh, and berated her with slurs.
‘You are out to destroy males’s lives and put them in jail,’ he yelled.
‘You are a bitch, a slut. No surprise your ex hates you.’
Slater then wrapped his fingers round her throat, shaking her violently and leaving seen bruising.
He adopted up the assault by placing her face, inflicting her ear to ring and her eye to swell.
Terrified, the girl fled and later found Slater had eliminated the SIM card from her telephone.
CCTV captured Slater smashing a window earlier than storming into the girl’s house throughout a terrifying outburst
Simply over two weeks later, on Boxing Day, she once more visited Slater’s house the place each had been ingesting.
By 6pm, Slater grabbed a vodka bottle and threatened her, yelling, ‘I will f***ing kill you.’
The girl sought refuge within the laundry, however Slater compelled his method in, slammed her in opposition to a washer, and choked her till she pleaded, ‘I can not breathe, let me go, you are actually hurting me.’
The violent episode left her bruised and affected by persistent complications.
All through their relationship, Slater despatched her tons of of degrading and threatening messages, typically threatening suicide if she reported him.
In a single message he wrote, ‘You f***ing killed me.’
In one other, he threatened, ‘I will cling [my] cranium on the entrance of [my] home.’
The girl was frequently insulted, known as names like ‘slut’ and ‘canine,’ and blamed for Slater’s behaviour.
Decide Glen Money instructed Slater his battle with alcoholism would make rehabilitation a troublesome and ongoing problem
In February 2024, Slater adopted her to a neighborhood sauna, made disturbing remarks, and propositioned her for intercourse in a bathroom.
When she rejected him, he grew to become indignant and aggressive, heightening her concern.
Slater escalated his abuse by sending her non-consensual intimate photos and movies.
In a single message, he connected a photograph, saying, ‘That is the way you turned as much as my home.’
One other chilling textual content threatened, ‘Omg. The s*** I’ve received on you … You are f***ed.’
The girl lived in fixed concern, emotionally drained by Slater’s manipulation and threats.
On March 13, 2024, her house safety system alerted her to Slater’s presence exterior her kitchen window.
CCTV footage captured him screaming profanities, smashing the kitchen window, and climbing into her house.
Slater’s abusive behaviour spanned a number of months, together with bodily assaults, stalking, and emotional torment by means of threatening messages
Inside, Slater continued his tirade, shouting threats and pouring himself a glass of wine from her fridge.
Alarmed neighbours heard the commotion and contacted police, who arrested Slater on the scene.
The girl instructed police she was terrified to return ahead, devastated by the affect on her psychological well being.
Earlier than his launch, Slater additionally finalised separate expenses within the Magistrates Courtroom, pleading responsible to driving over the alcohol restrict and driving with hashish in his system.
He was fined $900, had his licence suspended for one month, and convictions had been recorded.
Prosecutors initially argued for a five-year sentence with parole after three years.
Slater’s lawyer, Greg McGuire, submitted that Slater ought to serve three years however be instantly paroled.
‘He needs to return to New South Wales, the place members of his household reside,’ McGuire stated.
‘Whether or not he will get higher is solely as much as him. He has been with out alcohol for a yr.’
The previous Channel 9 commentator and cricket nice performed 74 Check matches between 1993 and 2001, scoring over 5000 runs and 14 centuries.
After retiring from cricket in 2004, Slater grew to become a well known tv pundit earlier than his private struggles spiralled into public shame.
An earlier court docket listening to famous Slater suffered psychological well being circumstances that contributed to ‘impulsive and reckless’ behaviour.
