00:00Pleading not guilty, it didn't happen.
00:02I've got heaps of witnesses that are going to back me in.
00:04A Melbourne mayor at the centre of an assault charge
00:06has insisted it didn't happen
00:08as his case heads toward a contested court hearing.
00:12We're looking forward to the court date.
00:14I'll be the last place I want to be right now,
00:15but it's going to get dealt with in July
00:17and I'll be pleading not guilty.
00:19I can't really, obviously, as you know,
00:20say too much or anything, actually,
00:22about that horrible evening,
00:23but that's all I can say.
00:25City of Yarra Mayor Stephen Jolly
00:27is accused of assaulting a woman
00:29during an altercation at a venue
00:31on November 1st, 2024,
00:33after a protest group reportedly gatecrashed
00:36a local election after-party.
00:38The outspoken mayor remained defiant
00:40and earlier this month
00:41made eyebrow-raising off-topic comments
00:44while denying his wrongdoing.
00:46I've done things that, you know,
00:48if you put them in the cold light of day,
00:49like said things, I mean,
00:51like sexually or drug-wise,
00:52that I probably thought,
00:53Jesus, why did I say that?
00:54But nothing illegal.
00:55Any 60-year-old who lives in Fitzroy
00:58who says that they've never had
01:00a line of cocaine
01:01or smoke in the joint,
01:02I'm telling you,
01:02they're lying to your face.
01:07That's it.
01:08All right.
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