Canberra Raiders hooker Tom Starling has been cleared over a violent street fight because a court found police were not acting in their duty when they punched him in the face multiple times.
The 25-year-old NRL star and his brothers Jackson, 26, and Josh, 21, brawled with NSW police officers at a Central Coast pub in December 2020.
Starling and Jackson, 26, were charged with hindering police while youngest brother had been charged with common assault of a security guard, assault of two officers and resisting police.
The charges have been dropped after magistrate Daniel Covington found the...