AUSTRALIAN crime victims want Mike Tyson barred from entering their country. The ex-heavyweight boxing champion is due 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 Aussie Millions Poker Championships. Crime Victims Support Association President Noel McNamara said: "We seem to have reached a new depth of lowness. Insult "He is being brought out here to be trotted out as a celebrity, like some kind of Mother Theresa. It's an insult." McNamara added: "We don't think it's right and we will be urging the Immigration Minister not to let him into the country." Tyson was convicted of raping an 18-year-old beauty contest entrant in 1992, and served three years in prison. A comeback fight against...
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