jeff fenech will appear in court today

Boxing champ on theft charge
From: By Joel Dullroy
December 30, 2005

BOXING legend Jeff Fenech will appear in court today charged with stealing three watches from a jewellery store on the Gold Coast.

Fenech, 41, was given a notice to appear in the Southport Magistrate's Court charged with stealing.
Police said the former world champion boxer was among a group of people in a Broadbeach jewellery store when three watches went missing.

The watches were returned and Fenech was later interviewed over the theft.

A 58-year-old Sydney man will also appear in the court charged with the same offence.

The alleged theft occurred in a jewellery store in the Oasis shopping centre which adjoins the five-star Sofitel Resort where Fenech was believed to be staying.

The former world champion boxer, who has earned millions through his sport, now runs a Sydney training gym.
He counts controversial American fighter Mike Tyson as a friend.

Fenech is one of a select band of international boxers to claim three world titles.

He retired in 1996 and was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame six years later.