Carlton AFL player charged with assault

A CARLTON AFL player charged with assaulting a fan will continue playing while the case proceeds.

SIMON White is with the club in Fremantle, where he has been named in Carlton's team for its Thursday night AFL game.

White allegedly punched a Carlton fan after a concert in the Melbourne CBD, the Herald Sun reports.Victoria Police spokesman Adam West said a man had been charged over the alleged assault."Police have charged a 26-year-old Brunswick West man in relation to an alleged assault which occurred in the CBD on May 14," he said."He has been charged with recklessly cause injury and unlawful assault and summonsed to appear at the Melbourne Magistrates Court on November 21."A statement from Carlton confirmed White had been charged and said his lawyers were going over the case."Simon and the football club have co-operated with police throughout the investigation," the statement said."Simon has the full support of the Carlton Football Club and will continue with his normal playing duties until advised otherwise."Carlton said the AFL integrity unit was "fully informed" throughout the investigation.The Herald Sun reported White and the fan gave different versions of the incident to police.White said he was taunted, while the fan said the alleged attack was unprovoked.

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UK AG won't challenge Harris jail sentence

CONVICTED paedophile Rolf Harris will not see his jail term challenged by the British government's chief legal adviser for being too lenient.

ATTORNEY-GENERAL Jeremy Wright will not refer the disgraced Australian entertainer's sentence of five years and nine months to the Court of Appeal, a spokeswoman in his office said.

Mr Wright's decision comes despite his office receiving 150 complaints about the leniency of Harris's sentence, of which he will serve half, although it only takes one complaint to trigger the review process.Harris, 84, a family favourite for decades, was finally unmasked as a prolific paedophile following his conviction for 12 indecent assaults at the end of last month.A spokeswoman for the Attorney General's Office (AGO) said: "The Attorney General understands that his decision not to refer the case may be a disappointment to some people; however, he did give extremely careful consideration to this sentence and he concluded that he could not refer it."She added: "After very careful consideration, the Attorney General, Jeremy Wright QC MP, has decided not to refer the five year and nine month sentence given to Rolf Harris to the Court of Appeal, as he did not think they would find it to be unduly lenient and increase it."The sentencing judge was bound by the maximum sentence in force at the time of the offending."The judge made some of the sentences consecutive to reach the total sentence, but he could not simply add up sentences on individual counts; the overall sentence had to be just and proportionate to the overall offending."The judge was also required to take into account the age of the offender."

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