Victoria Police won’t charge Sydney Swans players over Pullman Hotel incident

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Victoria Police have revealed the fate of four Sydney Swans players suspended after an incident at a Melbourne hotel three months after the scandal broke.

Sydney Swans players have been cleared of any criminal wrongdoing after a complaint of a sexual assault at a Melbourne hotel in August.

Player Riley Bice was cleared by police two weeks later after the incident, though Isaac Heeney, 30, Chad Warner, 25, James Jordon, 25, and Nick Blakey, 26, remained subject to a police sex crimes investigation.

“Following a thorough investigation and based on legal advice, Victoria Police will not proceed with criminal charges due to insufficient evidence,” police said in a statement.

“Due to the ongoing civil matter, Victoria Police is unable to make further comment.”

Victoria Police received complaints that women were inappropriately touched and slapped by men at the Pullman Hotel on August 17.

The players involved in the hotel incident were suspended for breaching team rules; namely going out drinking and bringing women back to the club hotel.

Star defender Blakey decided to leave Sydney and sign with the Kangaroos this off-season.

The incident at Melbourne’s Pullman Hotel unfolded in the early morning of August 17, hours after Sydney had defeated Essendon nearby at the MCG.

The dancers who went up to the hotel room are threatening civil action against the Swans, Heeney, Warner, Bice and Blakey as well as former Swan Taylor Adams.

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