Ben Cousins' fall from grace: From winning a Brownlow to waiting outside of a police station after two nights in a cell for breaching a violence order

Fallen AFL star Ben Cousins has been fined $600 after breaching a VRO The violence restraining order relates to his former partner Maylea Ti...

• Fallen AFL star Ben Cousins has been fined $600 after breaching a VRO
• The violence restraining order relates to his former partner Maylea Tinecheff
• Cousins had been arrested on Tuesday after he came within 10 metres of her 
• Last month, an arrest warrant was issued for him after he didn't appear in court

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and released on bail after spending two nights in a police cell.

Images, taken from outside the Armadale Magistrates Court, show the unkempt sports star wearing baggy shorts, t-shirt and trainers with a shirt tied around his waist and sporting a beard and closely cropped hair.

The pictures are a far cry from the images taken on the sports field when a toned and fit Cousins showed his six pack during a game between Richmond and Port Adelaide in Melbourne in 2010. 

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Fallen AFL star Ben Cousins pictured wearing baggy shorts, t-shirt and trainers outside court on Thursday, December 8

Cousins speaks on a mobile phone outside court in Perth on Thursday

Cousins has been fined $600 for breaching a violence restraining order

Cousins, playing for Richmond, changes jumpers during the round 22 AFL match between Richmond and Port Adelaide in 2010

Cousins poses with the 2005 Brownlow Medal after being announced as the winne r

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Cousins walking into the Magistrate's courts in Moorabbin in 2010

Cousins pictured in 2007 (left) on the way to rehab and right in 2015 leaving court in Fremantle

Former West Coast Eagles AFL player Ben Cousins leaves Armadale Magistrates Court in Perth on Thursday

Cousins was fined $600 after admitting he breached the VRO which relates to his former partner Maylea Tinecheff, with whom he has two children aged three and five.

He is only allowed to communicate with Ms Tinecheff via text message about parenting issues but police saw him come within 10 metres of her on Tuesday.

Cousins, 38, claimed his former partner approached him when he went to her house to drop off a hire car and his children ran out to see him at a nearby park.

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