Two police officers deny attacking Canberra Raiders NRL player Tom Starling during a wild brawl.
Defence lawyer Warwick Anderson told Gosford Local Court on Thursday Senior Constable Steven Lockwood Brown, 49, and Sergeant Evan Huw Prowse, 37, will plead not guilty to assaulting Starling.
The two officers, charged after an investigation by the NSW Professional Standard Command, are accused of punching Starling in the face during the brawl at the Shady Palms restaurant at Kincumber on the NSW Central Coast.
Starling, 25, was...