Fallen AFL star Ben Cousins will spend 12 months behind bars after being sentenced at Perth Magistrates Court on Tuesday.
The court heard the AFL Player's Association had offered to partly fined Cousins' rehabilitation if he avoided a jail term on Monday, with his former club the West Coast Eagles also offering him a job if he could get clean.
But the Magistrate denied the former Brownlow Medallist the chance to attend a voluntary rehabilitation program that had been arranged for him, instead sentencing him to 12 months jail and fining him $2400.
The sentencing related to an aggravated stalking charge, seven breaches of a violence restraining order, two drug related charges and driving without a licence.
The aggravated stalking related to Cousins "bombarding" his former partner Maylea Tinecheff with thousands phone calls and texts since October, contacting her one occasion 103 times in one day.
The magistrate described the stalking charge, which related to "persistent, sustained and intended" breaches of a violence restraining order taken out by Ms Tinecheff in May 2016.
