David Pocock pleads guilty on coalmine protest but no conviction is recorded

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Magistrate says conviction would be ‘disastrous’ to former Wallabies captain and dismisses charge of hindering a workman in the use of property

No conviction has been awarded against the former Wallabies captain David Pocock, who locked himself to a digger during a NSW coalmine protest.

Pocock was arrested after chaining himself to the digger for 10 hours as part of a blockade at the Maules Creek coalmine in New South Wales’s Leard state forest in November.

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