00:00Pleading not guilty, it didn't happen. I've got heaps of witnesses that are going to back me in.
00:04A Melbourne mayor at the centre of an assault charge has insisted it didn't happen as his case heads toward
00:10a contested court hearing.
00:12We're looking forward to the court date. I'll be the last place I want to be right now, but it's
00:16going to get dealt with in July and I'll be pleading not guilty.
00:19I can't really obviously, as you know, say too much or anything actually about that horrible evening, but that's all
00:24I can say.
00:25City of Yarra Mayor Stephen Jolly is accused of assaulting a woman during an altercation at a venue on November
00:311st, 2024, after a protest group reportedly gatecrashed a local election after party.
00:38The outspoken mayor remained defiant and earlier this month made eyebrow raising off topic comments while denying his wrongdoing.
00:46I've done things that, you know, if you put them in the cold light of day, like said things, I
00:50mean, like sexually or drug wise, that I probably thought, Jesus, why did I say that?
00:54But nothing illegal. Any 60 year old who lives in Fitzroy who says that they've never had a line of
01:00cocaine or smoke in the joint, I'm telling you, they're lying to your face.
01:05I'm telling you not to be the losers.
01:08I'm telling you, they're lying to fickey.
01:09I think I'm strawberry.
01:09My Lieutenantzemkrent HPR is ignoring her one to three times becoming famous is trying to be dirty right now.
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