Geelong midfielder Tanner Bruhn can finally be revealed as the player who spent the 2025 season fighting a rape charge, as the case against him was officially dropped on Tuesday.

A suppression order has prevented the naming of Bruhn, 23, since he was charged earlier this year with raping an intoxicated woman he met outside a strip club.

Bruhn applied for the media blackout on the basis that it was needed to protect his safety.

His co-accused and close friend, Patrick Sinnott, also tried but failed to have his name withheld. The Geelong Magistrates’ Court heard the pair were former housemates who had known each other since primary school.

The alleged victim in the case was to provide evidence at a preliminary hearing this week, but prosecutors told the court on Monday that charges again

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