League Juniors Jailed In Nz

Illawarra Mercury

Friday May 28, 2004

AUCKLAND.- Three junior members of the New Zealand Warriors rugby league club have been sentenced to prison for trying to kill an unborn baby.

Shaun Williams-Metcalf, 16, was sentenced to 18 months' jail yesterday after he took his friends, Geoffrey Ruaporo and Kyle Donovan, to a park to repeatedly kick his 15-year-old ex-girlfriend in the stomach to procure an abortion.

Ruaporo was sentenced to 18 months' jail while Donovan, who tried to stop the attack, received 15 months' jail.

The teenagers are members of the New Zealand Warriors Development squad and were selected last year for the New Zealand Rugby League under 16 side to tour Queensland, although they never played.

The trio's contracts have been terminated.