{"id":353148,"date":"2024-09-27T19:15:18","date_gmt":"2024-09-27T09:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?p=353148"},"modified":"2024-09-27T19:18:03","modified_gmt":"2024-09-27T09:18:03","slug":"footy-player-jailed-for-rape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2024\/09\/27\/footy-player-jailed-for-rape\/","title":{"rendered":"Footy Player Jailed For Rape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>September 27, 2024<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A former South Burnett Eagles rugby league player has been jailed after being found guilty of rape during a four-day trial this week in the Kingaroy District Court.<\/p>\n<p>Tyson Alexander Ellul, formerly of Nanango, pleaded not guilty to the charge of raping the woman after the pair had been drinking together and playing pool at a Kingaroy hotel.<\/p>\n<p>The Crown alleged the sexual assault occurred four years ago on the bonnet of a vehicle parked in King Street.<\/p>\n<p>The court was told the victim was too drunk to consent to the act.<\/p>\n<p>Ellul, who now lives in Brisbane, was found guilty by a jury on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, Judge Paul Smith AM sentenced Ellul, 22, to five years in prison, to be suspended after he serves 27 months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former South Burnett Eagles rugby league player has been jailed after being found guilty of rape during a four-day trial this week in the Kingaroy District Court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":104807,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,24],"tags":[21,1132],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.11 - 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