Radio host claims Roebuck made him feel uncomfortable
November 15th, 2011 - 6:38 pm ICT by IANS
Melbourne, Nov 15 (IANS) Radio jockey Gus Worland, who played alongside Peter Roebuck in Somerset, revealed that the noted cricket columnist made him feel “uncomfortable” and behaved “inappropriately” when the two were playing together in the 1985 English county cricket season.
Worland, now a TRIPLE M radio host, told The Daily Telegraph that while having a dinner at a restaurant in 1985, Roebuck asked him a list of personal questions that he thought went beyond his personal space.
“I picked up a vibe from him and it made me feel very uncomfortable. He was talking in a way that was very inappropriate. I didn’t know how to handle it. That has always stayed with me,” Worland was quoted as saying by the daily. Worland was 18 years old at the time while Roebuck was 29 and was leading the Somerset team.
Worland, also a reality television star, said he left the dinner in a hurry on his own. He summed up the investigation into Roebuck’s death and the ongoing allegations of inappropriate dealings against the cricket commentator and columnist as “a bit of a strange one”.
Roebuck committed suicide by jumping from the sixth-floor window while being investigated at the Southern Sun Hotel Newlands in Cape Town, Saturday. Roebuck was being investigated over allegations of indecently assaulting a 26-year-old Zimbabwean man he had met through social networking site Facebook.
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