Media focused on NRL stars, overshadowing vital court exchanges; CCTV vindicated Wighton amid false evidence.
If journalists covering the October 2023 hearing of Jack Wighton and Latrell Mitchell had not been so focused on the NRL stars, there may have been more outcry about a brief but crucial court exchange.
News media reports understandably concentrated on dramatic footage of the violent arrests, a territory sergeant admitting to giving false evidence, and prosecutors dropping criminal charges as a result.
The South Sydney Rabbitohs teammates were ultimately vindicated by a piece of CCTV footage which proved Mr Wighton never acted aggressively inside a Canberra nightclub on his 30th birthday.