Former NRL player Anthony Watts to stay behind bars
FORMER NRL bad boy Anthony Watts will stay behind bars until at least May 3 after a Tweed Heads magistrate refused to grant him bail.
The former Cowboys, Roosters and Sharks player appeared today on charges relating to an incident where he is alleged to have assaulted a 73-year-old man at South Murwillumbah last November before leading police on a chase.
Watts, 30, is expected to make his next appearance by audio-video link.
He was last in court for the matter on January 9.
His lawyer Campbell MacCallum, of Moloney MacCallum Lawyers, told News Corp at the time "there is a basis to argue (Watts) may have been suffering from a mental infirmity” when the incident occurred.
The matter was adjourned until today so lawyers could document his psychiatric history.
Mr MacCallum previously said Watts would begin seeing a psychiatrist while on remand and did not believe he was getting the "appropriate care he needs at the correctional centre”.
