![Ben Cousins outside court in December last year. Photo: Heather McNeill
Ben Cousins outside court in December last year. Photo: Heather McNeill](/images/transform/v1/crop/frm/38bv8fbAJg4GW9DaBewQu9m/88e4f0ff-9d97-48b5-b7f1-51da8bf976a6.jpg/r0_0_620_349_w1200_h678_fmax.jpg)
Ben Cousins outside court in December last year. Photo: Heather McNeill
Troubled AFL premiership player Ben Cousins has been jailed for one year and fined $2400 for stalking and drug offences.
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Cousins was sentenced in Perth Magistrates Court on Tuesday, having previously pleaded guilty to 11 offences, including aggravated stalking, breaching a violence restraining order and drug possession.
When the former West Coast captain was arrested, police found eight grams of meth in his possession, which his lawyer Michael Tudori told the court would only last him four days.