NRL Star Walker Pleads Guilty To Assault

NRL star Dylan Walker will be sentenced on Friday after pleading guilty to assault.

The Manly Sea Eagles centre, Tour Côn Đảo 26 was arrested in November after assaulting a man who came to the aid of his sister.

Walker had allegedly tried to get into the woman's car that was parked outside Narraweena's Little Italy restaurant on Sydney's northern beaches.

Walker pleaded guilty to the charge on Friday morning in Downing Centre Local Court, avoiding a two-day trial that was set to take place.

Another assault charge was withdrawn.

Walker's lawyer, Richard Pontello SC, asked for the court to take into account his client's "background of significant childhood deprivation"' when sentencing him.

He said the assault was committed while Walker was intoxicated.

"Alcohol use is an attempt at emotional regulation and managing the distress caused by the childhood deprivation," he said.

Walker is undergoing counselling and Tour Côn Đảo has not drunk in public since the incident, he said.

The former South Sydney Rabbitoh was stood down in early 2019 as he fought the accusation he'd assaulted his fiancee, Alexandra Ivkovic, in December 2018.

In that incident, Ms Ivkovic called triple zero and accused the NRL player of pulling her hair and causing her to fall as she held a baby.

She recanted the story later that night, saying she'd overreacted.

Walker returned to the field after being found not guilty by a magistrate in May 2019.