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Toby Blundell alleges Wright abused him during car trips to the Chandler pool when he was 13 years old. 'I knew it wasn't right'Īnother former swimmer also agreed to speak to the ABC about his experiences at the Chandler pool in the 1980s. Soon afterwards, he left the Chandler pool to take up a coaching position at the Palm Beach Currumbin pool on the Gold Coast. He was charged and convicted of assault and placed on an 18-month good behaviour bond. Wright "continued his grip upon Mrs Wee whilst she was on the floor and continued to push her by the shoulders or upper arms to and from the floor". In front of 13 witnesses, he then "rushed over to her and grabbed her with both hands" and "pushed her onto a wall and shook her backwards and forwards, to and from the wall".

Wright first verbally abused Wee, calling her a "Malaysian bitch", according to court documents. When Wright found out, he assaulted Wee at the Chandler pool. "The memory of that particular event is one of the clearest of my childhood."Īccording to court documents, Wee wrote letters to swimming authorities about Wright's "vulgar" behaviour saying he was a bad influence on kids. It wasn't long after that a parent came into the room and saved me, I suppose. "My recollection is that he was probably enraged enough to kill me at that point.

"He threw me into the gear room that we had all of our boards and kickboards sitting in, and all I remember then was literally his hands around my throat and me sort of pinned against the wall," Marshall said. One afternoon, the boy staged a kind of protest by refusing to swim more than one lap in a training session. Marshall said he was forced to leave the club in 1985 after Wright violently assaulted him at the pool. And take you away from the rest of the group."

And potentially, that would be a time where something might happen like that or even while you were there, he would say, 'Oh, I need to, you know, see you in my room for a tick,' or something like that. "Sometimes you might get there and John was just there alone.