Defence lawyer Terry Dobson today detailed Yarran’s tragic past, saying he began using methamphetamine in 2014 while playing at Carlton and there was some “upheaval” at the club.
“It quickly took over,” he said. Yarran spent some time in rehabilitation in 2015 before his retirement from the game after signing with Richmond but retiring the following year.
It was in 2017, Mr Dobson said, that his life spun out of control, as he dealt with the Tigers’ premiership win “which he was not a part of”.
The court was told he “experienced a sense of loss” as by that point he was playing with Swan Districts Football Club “not at the elite level”.
His emotional turmoil was compounded with the deaths of his niece and cousin, former Fremantle Docker Shane Yarran.
“From that point on, his abuse of meth skyrocketed,” he said. “He saw no point, almost in life.”
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