Current Fmr TV Host Andrew O'Keefe Charged with Assault

[Kurve]

When a police vehicle drove Mr O'Keefe from the station just after 4:00pm, he could be heard screaming and thumping the side of the van.

Former TV host Andrew O'Keefe has been charged after allegedly grabbing a woman's throat before kicking and punching her in Sydney's CBD.

Mr O'Keefe, 50, was arrested about 4.30am today after police were notified about the alleged incident, which took place on Tuesday afternoon.

NSW Police said the former White Ribbon ambassador met with a 38-year-old woman at his Kent Street apartment about 1.40pm on January 25 when an altercation broke out.

"A verbal argument ensued between the pair, before the man allegedly assaulted the woman — grabbing her by the throat, pushing her to the ground and punching her," a police statement read.

"The man allegedly assaulted the woman a second time — punching and kicking her — before she left the unit."

Mr O'Keefe was taken to Day Street Police Station, where he was charged with two counts of choking a person, three counts of common assault and one count of assault occasioning actual bodily harm.

TV host Andrew O'Keefe charged after alleged assault on woman

The former TV personality and White Ribbon ambassador is charged over an incident police allege took place in Sydney's CBD earlier this week, in which he choked, punched and kicked a woman.

www.abc.net.au

Moment O’Keefe explodes in police van

Confronting footage of former television host Andrew O’Keefe screaming and shouting from the back of a police van has emerged.

www.news.com.au

What a creep.

 

[Kurve]

He's got that Richard Pusey look

 

[Retzlaff]

I think he’ll take a deal

 

[IKE TURNER]

The same bloke that smugly gave it to mark Latham on a morning show saying he didn't know anything about domestic violence, well looks like you are indeed an expert on the subject Andrew

 

[Power Raid]

Andrew has battled mental health for quite some time, so I won't sink the boot in for something that may be related to that

but I will note he was very quick to judge others for just about everything and anything

just how quickly life can turn and we need friends when it does

 

[jason_recliner]

The PoS used to campaign against DV. Now he's a useless violent druggie bully by the looks of it. I hope he rots.

 

[utility]

The PoS used to campaign against DV. Now he's a useless violent druggie bully by the looks of it. I hope he rots.

I hope he is treated no differently to a street junkie or a black kid in the outback.

Justice should be blind not vengeful. But those with connections can get favourable treatment which is what really aggravates.

 

[Partridge]

Andrew has battled mental health for quite some time, so I won't sink the boot in for something that may be related to that

but I will note he was very quick to judge others for just about everything and anything

just how quickly life can turn and we need friends when it does

I will. If this guy didn't have double standards he'd have none at all.

Among a very strong field, possibly the most smug and sanctimonious media presenter out there on this subject, who to no one's surprise turns out to be the biggest hypocrite. Feck him.

 

[mr bagcroft]

Cocaine...hell of a drug.

 

[Power Raid]

a unintentional pun on sunrise this morning or not.........describing Andrew as a "Domestic Violence Campaigner!"

 

[Power Raid]

wow this guys history........we need a special island for guys like Pussey and O'Keefe.

 

[Partridge]

wow this guys history........we need a special island for guys like Pussey and O'Keefe.

Makes watching his Sunrise rants a bit more interesting now.

 

[Jamurp]

He just looks like cocaine.

 

[insanity]

Pretty sure this isnt his first rodeo either.

 

[Dogs_R_Us]

Pretty sure this isnt his first rodeo either.

A couple of years ago (longer?) he was reportedly found drunk, passed out in an alley. He came on tv and said haven't the media got anything better to do, blah blah. Obviously long-time problems. Channel 7 started to get the wobbles with him at that point.

 

[Sphynx]

Pretty sure this isnt his first rodeo either.

Obviously not.

Didn't he have to face a DV charge from his GF not even 12-18 months ago?

 

[Kurve]

Whimpered in the dock ...

Woman bit former TV presenter Andrew O'Keefe to break free of him, court hears

Former White Ribbon ambassador Andrew O’Keefe will remain in custody after he was yesterday charged with assaulting a woman at his Sydney apartment.

www.abc.net.au

 

[insanity]

Whimpered in the dock ...

Woman bit former TV presenter Andrew O'Keefe to break free of him, court hears

Former White Ribbon ambassador Andrew O’Keefe will remain in custody after he was yesterday charged with assaulting a woman at his Sydney apartment.

www.abc.net.au

From the above article:

The courtroom heard this was the third assault Mr O'Keefe had been accused of in recent times.

Two charges were dismissed last year on mental health grounds, and he was out on bail regarding a third charge at the time of this week’s alleged assault.

 

[insanity]

A couple of years ago (longer?) he was reportedly found drunk, passed out in an alley. He came on tv and said haven't the media got anything better to do, blah blah. Obviously long-time problems. Channel 7 started to get the wobbles with him at that point.

I read earlier it was in 2009. He doesn't have a studio to look after him/play it down this time. Interesting to see what happens.

 

[Awakening]

The bloke has no top lip

 

[jason_recliner]

Cocaine...hell of a drug.

Ice, apparently. He probably can't afford a cocaine addiction.

 

[Dogs_R_Us]

I read earlier it was in 2009. He doesn't have a studio to look after him/play it down this time. Interesting to see what happens.

That far back, wow, how time flies . But he stayed "clean" for a few years after that then, unless anything happened that was hushed up. Then meth crept into his troubled life...

 

[Partridge]

That far back, wow, how time flies . But he stayed "clean" for a few years after that then, unless anything happened that was hushed up. Then meth crept into his troubled life...

Oh well. Tough shit. Pity more concern isn't shown for the victim.

 

[utility]

Pretty sure this isnt his first rodeo either.

More bodies in the high country?

 

[utility]

From the above article:

The courtroom heard this was the third assault Mr O'Keefe had been accused of in recent times.

Two charges were dismissed last year on mental health grounds, and he was out on bail regarding a third charge at the time of this week’s alleged assault.

That's why in ye olden days we had mental asylums. Keeps people like this off the streets.

It's non-PC to suggest guys like this should be in psyche wards.