A rugby league worldwide has fled the UK after being charged with sexual offences together with rape, a courtroom has reportedly heard.
Keven Appo, 25, who performed for Bradford Bulls within the Betfred Championship earlier than being sacked on Friday, has apparently travelled to his residence nation of Papua New Guinea.
Appo was resulting from seem at Bradford Magistrates’ Courtroom on Monday morning, however didn’t attend and the courtroom instructed Sky Information a warrant for his arrest with out bail has been issued.
The BBC reported that the courtroom heard he flew to Dubai from Manchester Airport and caught a connecting flight to Papua New Guinea simply hours after he was given conditional bail at a listening to in November.
The Bradford Telegraph and Argus reported that magistrates had been instructed he fled the nation inside 5 hours of being charged.
An extradition course of has now begun to return him to Britain, the BBC reported prosecutor Fiona Newcombe as saying.
She instructed the courtroom that Appo gave the membership’s supervisor his home and automobile keys, and that UK authorities would now work with police in Papua New Guinea to deliver him again, the BBC added.
West Yorkshire Police stated in a press release on Friday: “A person from Calderdale has been charged with a number of sexual offences.
Learn extra:
Police officer charged with child sex offences
Six-month old dies in car park crash
“Keven Appo, aged 25 of Halifax, has been charged with rape, sexual assault on a feminine and two counts of assault.”
Confirming his dismissal later the identical day, his membership stated it had “cancelled Keven Appo’s taking part in contract”, however couldn’t remark additional at this stage.
