Three time AFL premiership player Brian Lake will spend a second night behind bars this evening after pleading guilty to harassing a woman he believed to be his ex-wife’s new lover.
The former Hawthorn star was arrested yesterday at 2.10pm and appeared in the Sunshine Magistrates Court today.
The 37-year-old pleaded guilty to charges of causing a breach of the peace, damaging his ex-wife’s iPhone and committing an indictable offence while on bail on Tuesday night.
The Norm Smith medallist also pleaded guilty to property damage – he put his fist through a door - and assaulting his wife’s friend at the family home in Aintree, west of Melbourne, on February 17.
He also pleaded guilty to stalking his ex-wife, whom he split from seven months ago.
Police evidence submitted to court revealed the existence of a phone video in which Lake could be heard saying: “You f---ing lesbians, I heard everything… Look at you. Look at you.”
The video was recorded on February 17.
Lake will be assessed for a community corrections order and sentenced tomorrow.
He spent six nights behind bars in Japan after a drunken bar fight in July last year.