Daniel Kerr opened up to WAtoday journalist Brendan Foster late last year. Credit:Brendan Foster She tired to ring Kerr back to clarify what he had said but her former husband was alleged to have laughed and hung up. The court heard that when Kerr did speak to Ms Pozo on the phone it was recorded and the ex-Eagle allegedly said "I'm at the point of snapping"... "let me see my children or I'll slit your throat" and "I will rape your mother". Kerr's lawyer Rhett Williamson admitted Kerr was affected by alcohol when he spoke to Ms Pozo, but only answered her call after she persistently rang him. He was concerned police had "cherry picked" parts of the conversation.

Daniel Kerr faces the media scrum outside court after his guilty plea in September 2015. Credit:Brendan Foster Mr Williamson claimed Kerr's text messages were not a breach of the VRO because he was allowed to talk to his wife about seeing his two daughters. He claimed his client believed Ms Pozo was using the VRO against him to stop him seeing his children. "He wants nothing to do with this lady... He just wants to see his children," the ABC reported Mr Williamson as having said. In September, Kerr pleaded guilty to breaching a violence restraining order against his ex-partner in a Perth court.

The two-time Brownlow Medal runner-up was charged with four counts of breaching a VRO after contacting Ms Pozo, via text messages. He was ordered to pay a fine of $2000 in court. At the time the 32-year-old said he was hoping to see his two children in the coming weeks. "This is the last time in this court, so you guys might miss me," he joked. "Everything has moved to the Family Court now so hopefully in three-and-a-half weeks, I'll be able to see them."

In July, Kerr was spared an immediate jail term for threatening to set two of his friends on fire. He was given an eight-month prison term, suspended for 12 months, and a 12 month community-based order. If he reoffends during that time he will go to prison. He was also ordered to pay $79 court costs. Kerr, who played 220 games for the Eagles, spoke exclusively to WAtoday in August about his battle with drugs and how he was seeking redemption. "I was cruising having one big party," he said at the time. "My life was one big party. Then the party got away from me."

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