Foreign cricketer Danushka Gunathilaka will remain behind bars after he was charged with the sexual assault of a Sydney woman but he has the “full support” of the Sri Lankan high commission.
The international cricket star, 31, appeared at Sydney’s Downing Centre Local Court on Monday via audio visual link from Surry Hills Police Station after he was arrested at a Sussex St hotel in the city’s CBD about 1am on Sunday.
Detectives from the State Crime Command’s sex crimes squad and Eastern Suburbs Police Area Command began a joint investigation following allegations a 29-year-old woman was sexually assaulted.
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Mr Gunathilaka was arrested in the early…
