Football coach made kill threat
HeraldSun
April 19, 2007 12:00am
A COUNTRY football coach could face jail after pleading guilty to making threats to kill one of his former players.
Former Torquay Football Club coach Adam Skrobalak, 27, could be jailed for up to two years after admitting threatening to kill Brodie Marston, a reserves player at the club.
Skrobalak was sacked as Torquay's coach after charges were laid last year, and has since been appointed coach of the East Geelong Football Club.
He appeared in the Geelong Magistrates' Court on Tuesday where he pleaded guilty to one charge of making a threat to kill.
Police alleged Skrobalak left two threatening voice messages on Mr Marston's mobile phone on October 1 after Mr Marston had been in a fight with Skrobalak's brother. Skrobalak allegedly later sent two threatening text messages to Mr Marston.