The Latest Breaking News from Michael Christian

Geelong's Tom Stewart is facing a long ban for his bump on Richmond's Dion Prestia but calls for a send-off rule have met a mixed response.

Geelong's Tom Stewart has been sent to the AFL Tribunal for his bump on Dion Prestia while Fremantle's Nat Fyfe has no case to answer over his umpire contact.

Fremantle skipper Nat Fyfe made contact with an umpire during the Dockers' loss to Carlton and is set to attract match review officer scrutiny.

North Melbourne's Jason Horne-Francis and Lachie Young have accepted AFL suspensions after offering early guilty pleas to their respective charges.

Western Bulldogs star Bailey Smith will miss their next two games after the club decided against challenging his two-game suspension for headbutting.

Sydney megastar Lance Franklin will challenge a one-game suspension offered to him by the AFL for striking Richmond's Trent Cotchin.

Jacintha Saldanha, a nurse who answered the prank call, died by suicide three days later

Mel Greig had been working at Sydney's 2Day FM when she and colleague Mike Christian rang King Edward VII Hospital in London "to see how quickly we could get hung up on" and "to our surprise, we were immediately transferred to the private nurse of the Duchess (of Cambridge)"

An Australian radio DJ who made an ill-fated prank call to a British nurse days before she took her own life has said she spent the ensuing years "battling" for her life and struggling against "suicidal thoughts".

Mel Greig was labelled a ‘murderer’ after a 2012 prank call to Jacintha Saldanha days before the nurse took her own life.

North Melbourne defender Ben McKay has received a one-match AFL suspension that will rule him out of playing against twin brother Harry for the first time.