Former Newcastle Knights player Danny Wicks leaving Glen Innes Correctional Centre on Friday morning. Photo: Naomi Davidson
FORMER Knights star Danny Wicks was released from Glen Innes Correctional Centre on Friday morning after serving 18 months of a three year jail sentence for drug trafficking.
Wicks attended his final roll call at 8am before being released half an hour later.
He was transferred from a Corrective Services vehicle into an awaiting black Toyota Hilux with tinted windows.
Coincidentally, Wicks walks free at a time when rugby league is in the midst of a drugs crisis that could result in suspensions of many players, while Wicks has another 18 months to serve of a four-year playing ban.
Wicks has served most of his sentence at Glen Innes Correctional Centre, a minimum-security jail with its own sawmill, three barbecues and a library with a range of fiction, non-fiction and reference material.
He has spent much of that time with his brother, Brett, who was eligible for release in December.
Wicks' ban from professional sport doesn't end until September next year, meaning the earliest he could lace up the boots would be at the start of the 2015 season.
He'll be 28 by then and the Knights have previously said that they will not sign him again. It is unlikely any other club will sign him, with his age and past being huge drawbacks.
His manager told the court at his sentencing hearing: ''It will be extremely unlikely for Danny to return to professional sport. I'll be surprised if he ever plays again.''
Newcastle Herald and Stephen Ryan
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