Yarra mayor charged with unlawful assault

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Prominent inner-city Mayor Stephen Jolly has been charged with assault after a gate-crashing incident at an election after party in 2024.

Jolly told The Age he had been emailed a single charge of assault over the November 2024 event on Tuesday and would be pleading not guilty.

Yarra Mayor Stephen Jolly.

Yarra Mayor Stephen Jolly.Credit: Justin McManus

“Because of legal restrictions there’s no more I’m allowed to say, but I am not going to be diverted from my work representing the people of Yarra,” he told The Age. “I will be vigorously defending myself.”

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