Disgraced former basketball star Kendal “Tiny” Pinder could be deported from Australia after being hit with a hefty prison sentence for the latest in a long history of sexual crimes. The Bahamian-born basketballer was sentenced to eight years’ jail in Sydney’s Downing Centre District Court on Thursday after pleading guilty in April to sexual intercourse without consent and aggravated sexual assault.
He was previously convicted for sexually assaulting three women aged 16 to 20 between 1988 and 1990 and jailed for five years in NSW for the sexual assault of a 15-year-old girl. Pinder was also sentenced to 15 months in jail for a recent conviction after stalking a woman as she walked home from a train station in the Sydney suburb of Rockdale. Judge Scotting told the hearing Pinder’s history of sexual assault raised concerns for the ongoing safety of the community upon his release.