Locke in more strife after joyride goes wrong

investigation.

Smith, 30, was charged by police for failing to provide a sample for analysis and driving without due care attention after an incident in Hull earlier in the week.

It has been reported that Locke and Lyne were present as well but they will not face police charges unlike Smith, who is due in court later this month.

However, the trio could all be involved in one of rugby league’s most bizarre stories of the year as Dan Ginnane, Triple M radio broadcaster, said he received reports they had stolen the car of their head coach, Brian Smith, and crashed it into a wall.

‘‘Tim Smith, who plays for Wakefield along with Kevin Locke, got on the drink, stole their coach Brian Smith’s car and put it into a wall – this was the story I was told,’’ said Ginnane.

‘‘Even for rugby league that’s ridiculous. We thought, ‘It’s clearly a furphy, it’s even too outrageous for rugby league’. But since then it has emerged Tim Smith has been arrested for DUI and for an incident – presumably an accident.

‘‘Can you imagine if this is true, that two or three players have stolen the coach’s car and put it into a wall?’’

Locke’s already controversial career appears to have taken another extraordinary twist in what’s been another tumultuous year for the former Warriors fullback.

He left the Salford Red Devils in June following a pay dispute with owner Marwan Koukash and he signed for the Wildcats when they were bottom of the Super League at the end of June.

Wakefield did beat Halifax 30-12 to remain on course for a Super League place next season but the club did confirm earlier in the week in a statement saying that: ‘‘A full investigation has been launched and the club are cooperating fully with Humberside Police, the RFL and RL Cares in this matter.’’ Lleyton Hewitt may have played his last Davis Cup match after Great Britain took a stranglehold of the semi-final tie in Glasgow with an epic victory in the crucial doubles rubber.

Andy and Jamie Murray left the capacity crowd inside the Emirates Arena in a state of delirium with a 3-6 6-3 6-4 6-7 (6-8) 6-4 win over Hewitt and Sam Groth yesterday.

The thrilling five-set triumph gave Britain a 2-1 advantage in the