Fallen West Coast Eagles premiership player Daniel Kerr avoids jail time despite family violence conviction

Fallen West Coast Eagles Senior player Daniel Kerr has narrowly avoided jail despite being convicted of domestic violence offenses against his ex-partner over a number of years.

the formerAFL the player received a suspended sentence of four years and six months in prison with strict conditions for physical, verbal, coercive and financial abuse against a former partner between 2013 and 2019.

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Perth Crown Court heard on Friday that Kerr once punched the woman while she was holding her car keys and then licked the blood off them.

In other incidents during the relationship, which was “marred by drug and alcohol use”, he used a chainsaw to cut her bed in half and suffocate her while she held their five-month-old child.

The court heard the former Premier League player was diagnosed with schizophrenia in 2022 and psychological reports identified Kerr as suffering from mental health problems years before he committed the domestic violence offences.

Kerr, the brother of injured Matildas captain Sam Kerr, has a history with the law.

In 2020, he was found passed out on Kalgoorlie Street in Perth, and last year he was jailed for two years after admitting to setting fire to his parents’ house in Cardinha in February 2021.

The sentence is retroactive, meaning he has already served the full term.

Kerr also admitted setting the house on fire at a hearing at Perth Magistrates Court in September 2021, seven months after denying the charge.

The 41-year-old was told he would be sent straight to prison if he re-offended in the next two years.