A jury has heard a remorseful Sam Kerr admit she was drunk, angry and scared and should have "just walked away and gone home" and avoided a row with London police officers that ended with her arrest.
"I wish I had just gone home. Wish I had walked away and dealt with it in the morning," Kerr said in an audio recording of an interview conducted on the night of January 30, 2023, after her arrest in the early hours that day.
Australia's women's football captain, wearing a cream top and dark coat, was in Kingston Crown Court in London with her parents Roger and Roxanne, and brother Levi on the second day of her trial on charges of racially aggravated harassment with intent to cause alarm or distress.