Fallen AFL star Ben Cousins 'attacked in park'

FORMER AFL star Ben Cousins has reportedly been thrown to the ground during a fight at a park in Perth. 

Police have confirmed there was a verbal argument between two men in an East Fremantle Park, in Irwin Street at 4.45pm (WST) yesterday.

The 35-year-old Brownlow Medal winner, who has had a long public battle with methamphetamine addiction, was in the park when he was approached by a man yelling "I am going to kill you", a witness said.

During the scuffle one of the men, believed to be Cousins, was thrown to the ground, police said. The two men then left the location in separate vehicles.

Reports suggest Cousins was with relatives, including children, when the alleged attack took place.Police last night confirmed officers were called to the park, near the corner of Canning Highway and Irwin Street. But when they arrived everyone had left.

The alleged attacker has been described as a suspected bikie.

This morning, police spokeswoman Susan Usher confirmed there was an incident at the small park, where two men including a 35-year-old man, believed to be Cousins, got into a verbal argument.

“No complaint’s been made to police, which means it’s not a police investigation,” Ms Usher said.
Cousins, who joined the Eagles in 1995 as a talented teenager from Wesley College, became one of the club's favourite sons, a decorated all-Australian, club captain and 2006 premiership player who played 238 games.

But his football world came crashing down when he was sacked in 2007 after his methamphetamine addiction spiralled out of control.

He spent a year out of the game, but finished his career with Richmond, where he played a further 32 games in two years.

He has continued to battle drug addiction, featuring in a tell-all documentary for national television, where he admitted his ongoing fight with substance abuse, and has since been charged with possessing a prohibited drug, a charge that was later dropped.

Cousins has never been far from the headlines with a hospital admission for drug-induced psychosis and an $800 fine in June last year for drug possession after he was arrested at Esperance airport with 4.56g of methylamphetamine concealed inside his body.

He had flown to Esperance, 800km south-east of Perth, to attend a rural drug rehabilitation clinic.

Cousins has recently become a father for the second time, with partner Maylea Tinecheff, who had a baby girl a few weeks ago. Cousins also has an 18-month-old son Bobby.

news.com.au 5 Aug 2013

Information from an anonymous source states that it was a "drug deal related incident".

Well known to police criminal not only is able to walk the streets, but also continue with the drug business, in the presence of children in parks.

Corrupt police are also in on it, being bought off with 'drug money'.