Two more footballers have pleaded guilty to verbally assaulting Menachem Vorchheimer as he walked home from Shul on Simchas Torah (October) last year – as reported HERE on YW.
After a number of lengthy adjournments, James Dalton and Matthew Cuthbert appeared in the Melbourne Magistrates Court on Monday morning to answer a range of charges. They will return to court for sentencing on Thursday.
Cuthbert pleaded guilty to a charge of using insulting words in public. Three other charges against Cuthbert were dropped.
Dalton meanwhile, pleaded guilty to one count of offensive behaviour. The AJN understands that it was Dalton, the captain of the Ocean Grove Football Club, who snatched Vorchheimer’s Yarmulka and hat from his head.
Another player involved in the incident, Simon Christian was fined $1000 earlier this year after he admitted yelling “Go Nazis” at Vorchheimer, the son of Holocaust victims.
(Source: Australian Jewish News)
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It’s a kangaroo court.
Vorch is not the son of Holocaust victims. His mother is a giyores, and his father a”h was never in the Holocaust.