Vic: AFL star vouches for man who took gun into jail

AAP General News (Australia)
01-17-2001
Vic: AFL star vouches for man who took gun into jail

MELBOURNE, Jan 17 AAP - A man who was convicted of carrying a loaded gun into a Victorian
men's prison was given a "very positive" character reference by an AFL football star in
a Melbourne court today.

Darren Harland, 30, of Ascot Vale, was caught with the gun when he, along with an unnamed
companion, parked in the grounds of the Fulham prison in eastern Victoria on August 13
last year.

The Melbourne Magistrates Court was told that prison officers found the loaded Phoenix
.22 semi-automatic handgun and ammunition in a black bum-bag during a …