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Top Broncos official makes stunning drink-driving confession in court
Jul 8, 2025
A public relations worker for the NRL's glamour team who guided the club through a player's drug-driving crisis has herself admitted crashing into parked cars while more than three times over the alcohol limit.
Broncos media officer Melissa Telhia Mallet, 39, faced Brisbane Magistrates Court on Tuesday on one count of high-range drink driving.
Mallet is the third person linked to the Broncos to be charged with drink or drug driving in the past 10 months.
Broncos player Ezra Mam was driving his ute when it collided with an Uber at Bardon, in Brisbane's west, on October 18 last year, injuring a woman and child.
Mam pleaded guilty to drug driving and driving without a licence, receiving an $850 fine and a licence suspension for six months.
Broncos former premiership player Steve Renouf last week apologised after allegedly being caught by police driving in Brisbane with a 0.197 blood alcohol concentration.
Magistrate Joseph Pinder on Tuesday asked Ms Mallet how she would plead to the charge.
'Guilty, Your Honour,' Mallet said.
Police prosecutor Paul McPhee told Mr Pinder that officers responded to a traffic crash at 9.45pm on June 2 in the inner Brisbane suburb of Paddington.
'Police when they arrived observed members of the public on the street and numerous vehicles damaged,' he said.
'It appeared a car had run into numerous parked cars.'
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