Rising footy star and former Rebels gang member is touted by police as the poster boy for criminal reform in new viral video - but he was convicted of strangling his pregnant girlfriend just last month
Rising NRL star and former Rebels gang member Dan Kilian has been touted by police as the face of bikie reforms despite being convicted of strangling and assaulting his ex-girlfriend. Kilian was still in high school when he began playing for the under-20s Gold Coast Titans in 2011, which he still describes as his favourite footy memory. He signed a contract with the Newcastle Knights the following year before a battle with anxiety and depression saw him throw away his promising league career at the age of 19 - finding himself in jail within two years. The former rugby league prodigy opened up about how he went off the rails and ended up behind bars after joining the Rebels bikie gang. 'I became the perfect concoction of the human monster; super greedy, manipulative, disloyal, abusive, violent,' he recalled. Former rising rugby league star Dan Kilian (pictured leaving the Supreme Court in 2017) has opened up how his life spiralled out of control when he was younger Dan Kili