The final charge against NRL star Tom Starling for an incident on the NSW Central Coast has been dismissed after a magistrate found police breached their duty when they "assaulted" him.
The 22-year-old Canberra Raiders hooker was initially charged with seven offences after a police officer was left with a cut to his hand while allegedly intervening in a fight involving Starling and his two brothers in 2020.
In January last year, all the charges relating to the incident against him were dropped except for one: hindering an officer.
On Friday Magistrate Daniel Covington found the police officers involved behaved outside of their duty, and dismissed that last charge.