Australia crime victims demand Mike Tyson bar

By Rob Taylor, CANBERRA (Reuters) Australian crime victims are demanding ex-heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson be barred from entering the country to take part in a professional poker tournament with retired cricketer Shane Warne. Tyson, a convicted rapist, is planning to travel to the southern city of Melbourne in January for the A$10 million (4.8 million pound) Aussie Millions Poker Championships, organisers said. "We seem to have reached a new depth of lowness. He is being brought out here to be trotted out as a celebrity, like some kind of Mother Theresa. It's an insult," Crime Victims Support Association President Noel McNamara told Reuters. "We don't think it's right and we will be urging the Immigration Minister not to let him into the country," McNamara said. Tyson, 42, is playing poker with Warne in Las Vegas... [read full story]