Wallabies star Kurtley Beale to face trial over alleged sexual assault

Embattled Wallabies star Kurtley Beale will fight allegations he sexually assaulted a woman at a Sydney pub before a jury, a year after he was suspended from play.

Kurtley Beale, 35, pleaded not guilty at Sydney’s Downing Centre Local Court late last year to sexual intercourse without consent, and two counts of sexual touching.

Police allege the former NSW Waratahs star sexually assaulted a woman in the toilets of the busy Beach Road bar in Bondi in the late evening of December 17, 2022.

Appearing before Sydney’s Downing Centre District Court on Friday, Justice Graham Turnbull SC told Mr Beale the trial before a jury would begin on Monday.

It comes about a year after Mr Beale, who has 95 caps for the Wallabies, was stood down from the national side, only a week after taking part in a 44-man boot camp.

Mr Beale, from Mount Druitt, has made over 90 national representative player appearances in his 10-year career, and was awarded the 2011 John Eales medal.