Dockers player charged with assault

Fremantle Dockers player Michael Johnson has been charged after a kebab shop patron was allegedly assaulted last week.

The assault against a 23-year-old Bunbury teacher is alleged to have happened in Leederville in the early hours of November 13 after the victim filmed the veteran AFL defender with his pants down around his ankles.

Police confirmed on Friday they had charged a 32-year-old Canning Vale man with assault occasioning bodily harm and he is due to appear in Perth Magistrates Court on January 18.