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Former NRL player Curtis Scott has been acquitted of assault occasioning actual bodily harm after successfully arguing he was defending himself from a potentially dangerous assault by a drunk patron.
CCTV vision shows Mr Scott striking a man at Canberra nightclub Kokomo's in May 2021, a punch that broke the man's nose.
Mr Scott's defence argued in ACT Magistrates Court that Mr Scott felt threatened because the man was touching him, expressing his desire to have a 'gay experience' and that Mr Scott's diagnosed post-traumatic stress disorder had influenced his reaction to the incident.
CCTV footage shows the incident when Mr Scott lashed out at the patron who had been harassing him at Kokomo's night club in Canberra
'He said something along the lines of he'd like to have a gay experience with me,' Mr Scott told the court.
'I said: 'Mate, f*** off, don't touch me'.'
'I thought they were going to attack me,' Mr Scott told the court.
'That's when I threw a left-hand punch.'
The man who was hit by Mr Scott denied that he made the remarks.
'I've
