Sale Sharks centre Mark Jennings has pleaded guilty to assaulting a police officer and has had his case adjourned before sentencing until March 28th.
The case has been adjourned to allow magistrates time to consider medical reports on the player’s mental health.
Jennings has pleaded guilty to the charges of assaulting a police officer and causing a public order by using threatening, abusive and insulting a police officer on February 2nd.
The chair of magistrates agreed to the request, however Jennings must ensure that he attend the next hearing and has been warned not to commit any further offences while on bail.
His lawyer, Mark Haslam has described the offences as a “very sad case” after claiming Jennings had been unwell and due to this the chair agreed to review the medical reports.
Crown Prosecutor David Morgan described what had been told about the incident in question which took place at the player’s home.
“At 11pm officers were called to Mr Jennings’ home. He was taken into a separate room by the officer. He made comments about the questioning police officers. He resisted being put into hand-cuffs. He head-butted a police officer in the chest. During the journey to the police station he told the officers that he was going to kill them, and he told one police officer he was going to rape them,” he said.
Jennings, who made his debut at the Sharks in the 2011/12 season has not played since last October and having only made 95 appearances during his time at the club due to injuries will be out of contract at the end of the season.
