Promising NRL player Jamil Hopoate jailed for drunken assault
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Jamil Hopoate, centre, leaves the Downing Centre Local Court with his father John, left, and brother Will Hopoate, right, in Sydney. (AAP) AAP
Promising rugby league player Jamil Hopoate has been jailed for at least one year over the drunken, brutal and unprovoked attack of a man outside a Sydney pub.
After the sentence was handed down the 20-year-old hugged and kissed his father John Hopoate, a former NRL player, before he was taken into custody.
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Hopoate pleaded guilty to two counts of assault occasioning actual bodily harm in company to the unprovoked attack on Alexander Christie and "good Samaritan" Timothy Blackett outside a Manly hotel on Sydney's northern beaches in February.
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