Pokies heir Peter Ainsworth off the hook on assault charge

THE heir to a $4 billion poker machine fortune has had a charge of assaulting his girlfriend dropped.

Peter Ainsworth, the 28-year-old grandson of pokie king Len Ainsworth, did not appear in Waverley Local Court yesterday, where a hearing of the charge and an apprehended violence order was to proceed. The court attendance notice served on Ainsworth stated he was charged with assaulting girlfriend Alice McClure at Darling Point on November 27. He had entered a plea of not guilty to the charge.

Magistrate Eve Wynhausen withdrew the AVO application and dismissed the assault charge. It comes six months after Ainsworth pleaded guilty to cocaine possession after he tried to hide his drugs in a pot plant during a police search of a trendy eastern suburbs pub.

He was found guilty of possessing between 0.1g and 0.2g of cocaine and was given an 18-month good behaviour bond.

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