MURRAY River councillor Thomas Weyrich has faced court charged with assault occasioning actual bodily harm.
The Greater Murray Ward councillor briefly appeared in the Moama Local Court on Thursday.
His solicitor said Cr Weyrich intended to plead guilty.
With no summary read to the court, Magistrate Brian Van Zuylen adjourned the matter to the same court in November.
It’s not the first time Cr Weyrich has had a run-in with the law, with the 66-year-old convicted and fined in 2020 for not lodging a declaration with the NSW Electoral Commission within the required time.
Cr Weyrich pleaded guilty to the charge at Deniliquin Local Court on August 6, 2020, and was ordered to pay $2500.
He said he submitted the declaration a week late.
“Every six months we have to fill out a declaration to say if we received any gifts or accepted anything,” he told Deniliquin Pastoral Times.
“There was nothing to declare, it was just a week late.”
He believed the penalty was “severe”.
“The penalty was pretty severe, I thought, for something as minuscule as that,” he said.
“In all the years I’ve been on council, I’ve never declared anything because no-one’s ever given me anything.”
