NRL star Dylan Walker not guilty of assaulting fiancee

NRL star Dylan Walker has been found not guilty of assaulting his fiancee by pulling her ponytail and causing her to fall to the ground while cradling a baby.

The 24-year-old had charges of domestic violence-related assault occasioning actual bodily harm and common assault dismissed in Manly Local Court on Friday.

The Manly Sea Eagles centre was charged after Alexandra Ivkovic suffered grazes to her shoulder, leg and feet in December.

“I am simply not satisfied beyond a reasonable doubt of the guilt of Mr Walker,” magistrate Michelle Goodwin said.

Earlier in the day, Walker told the magistrate that Ms Ivkovic had left their home after a fight broke out between them when she asked if he’d like a spoon or a fork to eat dinner while playing his PlayStation.

He said he followed her outside and asked her to come back into the home and speak to him.

“I just reached out with my left hand to touch her shoulder, just turning her towards me,” Walker said. “Then she fell, fell onto the ground.”

Ms Ivkovic initially told NSW Police that Walker pulled her by the ponytail to the ground.

But in February she told the court she recalled things differently later on.

“When I fell, I thought at the time that he had grabbed my hair but then I realised that he didn’t,” Ms Ivkovic said in court.

She said Walker reached out to grab her shoulder and her hair got in the way.

Walker on Friday denied swearing at neighbour Lauren O’Sullivan who’d previously testified she saw him pull Ms Ivkovic’s hair and went to her aid.

He admitted he swore at Ms O’Sullivan’s partner who called out that the police had been phoned. Walker told him to “mind your own business you f**head”.

The 24-year-old denied he was being argumentative instead saying he was responding to the neighbour’s “sarcastic” tone.