Former Australia cricketer slammed with two more allegations post domestic violence charges

A former Australia cricketer is going through one of the roughest phases in his life and this comes on the back of new allegations from two women after he was convicted on domestic violence charges on November 9, Wednesday and was sentenced to a two-year second good behaviour bond and a two-year community corrections order. 

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Michael Slater, the former cricketer, admitted to charges of common assault, multiple stalking attempts and breaching a restraining order, which eventually saw two new women coming up with much more disturbing allegations against the cricketer-turned-commentator. 

The Sydney Morning Herald quoted the two women as saying that they were left to a shell of a person and were broken by the ending of the relationship. One woman, who claimed that the former cricketer from Australia sent her abnormal texts, said that Slater would sneak into her mobile and find ways to harass her as and when possible. 

“He’d go through my inbox, my rubbish, he’d sneakily get my pin code and go through it, looking for some grounds to accuse me of being untoward. He had an app on my phone so he could track me. He’d say, ‘who are you having sex with?” she was quoted as saying by The Sunday Morning Herald. 

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“It’s cost me a fortune to get out of that relationship. As if I want to put a civil case against someone like that? What price could I put on the trauma I’ve suffered? The guilt I felt leaving that relationship, and the worry it caused some of the people around me ... it took me a long time to forgive myself. He blew up my life,” the other woman was quoted as saying. 

Is Michael Slater’s bipolar disorder the actual problem?

However, Slater’s lawyer John Agius SC, claimed to the court in Australia that his client was a victim of bipolar disorder and also pleaded for the dismissal of all of the seven charges. Further, Agius said that all of Slater’s antics were only because of his disorder and not because of his intoxication. 

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“That’s significant because if he has bipolar disorder and he’s not being treated for it, then … it’s likely that any treatment he has had hasn’t treated the whole of his condition,” Agius was quoted as saying in the court. 

“He should be given one more chance. He should be given that chance because his likely bipolar disorder had not been diagnosed at the time. He clearly wasn’t in control of his behaviour,” said the lawyer further.