Former umpire charged with betting offences relating to 2022 Brownlow Medal count

Pell, 34, has been further charged over allegedly suspicious gambling on the 2022 count. Two extra charges of engaging in conduct that corrupted a betting outcome of an event – communicate information – were added.

He had already been charged with six offences in relation to wagering on the 2021 Brownlow Medal, including use of corrupt conduct information for betting purposes – communicate information, and undertaking a course of conduct to use corrupt conduct information for betting purposes.

He will appear at Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on December 4.

In September, Pell and three other men – his brother Donovan Andrew Pell, Mitch James Lucas and William Michael Forde – appeared in the Melbourne Magistrates Court facing a combined 102 charges relating to suspicious gambling on the 2021 and 2022 Brownlow counts.