Overview
- Police allege two groups clashed on Point Nepean Road about 2am on December 27, 2024, with two men taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
- Dion Prestia has been charged on summons with recklessly causing serious injury, and Steven May has been charged on summons with affray.
- A third man from Blairgowrie has also been charged with affray following the investigation by Mornington Crime Investigation Unit detectives.
- Prestia denies being present at the incident, says he will contest the charge, and Richmond says he retains the presumption of innocence and will return to pre-season training.
- May has not commented publicly, Melbourne has been contacted, and reports of severe facial injuries from an alleged victim have been noted as police maintain the hospitalised injuries were not life-threatening.