Broncos NRLW star Ash Werner has been slapped with a two game ban for biting Roosters back Jayme Fressard in Saturday night’s clash on the Sunshine Coast.
The former Aussie bobsleigh international broke down in tears at the end of the two-hour long hearing, having fought the charge following her send off – the NRLW’s first ever – at the judiciary.
She insisted that she had not bitten Fressard, but the panel ruled against her following testimony from the Roosters player and photographic evidence of her arm.
Werner’s defence had been that Fressard had applied force in the opposite direction, pushing her arm into Werner’s face, but the panel of Tasrha Gale and Greg McCallum returned a verdict in just over ten minutes.
The NRL asked for a two match penalty, graded down from the four weeks that were given to NRL player Kevin Proctor in 2020, due to the shorter length of…