Rugby player charged with hotel fracas

Jordan Mark Whippey, 17 from Halifax, Britain, currently in Mlata with a rugby team engaged in a friendly match with a Maltese side, was charged with causing damages to his hotel room, and being in a drunk state stopping cars on the Coast Road.

Whippey, who pleaded not guilty after lawyer Arthur Azzopardi assumed counsel as he refused any legal aid, was granted bail against a personal guarantee of  €500.

Inspector Josric Mifsud, who prosecuted informed the Court that Whippey had ran away from the Soreda Hotel in St. Paul's Bay where he was lodged together with his team.

He was found later in a very drunk state wearing just a pair of shorts on the Coast Road and stopping cars.

Whippey was also charged with threatening a police officer, resisting arrest and assault on a Police Sergeant.

While granting bail, Magistrate Gabriella Vella ordered Whippey to be indorrs by 7:30pm, and to appear before the courts before he leaves in two days time.