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After an Oztag touch footy player tearfully apologised for his “stupid” assault on a referee that caused a brain bleed, the one-punch attack victim stepped forward to shake hands. Benson Leipau Pauga had approached Jason Fernie in the July 2022 game’s second half after his team accused the referee of favouring the opposition, a Brisbane court was told on Thursday. After a verbal exchange, Pauga punched the 49-year-old Fernie on the jaw.
The court was told Pauga described his conduct as a “blind explosion” during a week in which he separated from his wife and his scaffolding business partner had left. “Referees need to feel safe from players but there was only one punch,” Smith said. Taking into account Pauga’s guilty plea to one count of assault occasioning bodily harm, Smith sentenced him to a 12-month intensive corrections order and recorded a conviction.
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