Canberra Raiders News

The Canberra Times

NRL players Jack Wighton and Latrell Mitchell will defend charges laid over an alleged fight outside a Canberra nightclub, with a lawyer for one of the State of Origin stars saying "every story has two sides".

But the charges will hang over their heads throughout the forthcoming football season, with their hearing still more than eight months away.

The NSW Blues teammates travelled to and from the ACT Magistrates Court together on Wednesday, when they both pleaded not guilty to charges of fighting in a public place.

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Canberra Weekly

Jack Wighton and Latrell Mitchell have pleaded not guilty to charges stemming from an alleged fight outside a Canberra nightclub.

The NRL star duo fronted the ACT Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday, but won’t fight their charges until after the season with a three-day hearing slated for October 30.

Canberra five-eighth Wighton, 30, is facing charges of fighting in a public place and failing to comply with an exclusion direction, while South Sydney fullback Mitchell, 25, is charged with resisting a territory public official, fighting in a public place and failing to comply with an exclusion...

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Fox League

Two NRL stars who got into an alleged scuffle during a night out of birthday celebrations will fight their respective charges in court.

South Sydney Rabbitohs fullback Latrell Mitchell and Canberra Raiders five-eighth Jack Wighton were arrested in central Canberra earlier this month after they allegedly got into a fight outside a nightclub.

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