The Canberra Raiders are unlikely to take any further action against Trevor Thurling, regardless of the outcome of his drink-driving hearing on Monday. The Raiders stood down Thurling indefinitely after he crashed his car at Sydney's Bondi Junction on April 10.
Two of his friends went to hospital, while Thurling escaped injury and was left with a written-off car.He was charged with mid-range drink-driving after returning a blood-alcohol reading of 0.100 - double the legal limit. Just three weeks later, Thurling snuck back into the top grade last Saturday against the Panthers and is likely to be free to play for the remainder of the season.
Raiders chief executive Don Furner defended the decision to allow Thurling to resume club duties, and said any further punishment was a decision for the court. ''The case has now been brought back to Queanbeyan which has pushed the date out,'' Furner said yesterday.
''Once that court case got pushed out to the end of the month, there was no use in us holding him back.''We feel that [with] four weeks [out], he's certainly done his pennants, he's remorseful and not a player that has been in trouble before.
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