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Both Pryce and his former Bradford team-mate Stuart Reardon walked free from court on Thursday after a judge decided not to carry out an earlier threat to impose a prison sentence.

Reardon, 27, was given a 12-week suspended sentence at Bradford Magistrates' Court after last month admitting assaulting his estranged wife Kay after finding out she was seeing another man. Pryce, also 27, was ordered to do 100 hours unpaid work after he pleaded guilty to assaulting Mrs Reardon's new partner in the same incident last summer.

It is the second time Pryce has escaped a custodial sentence. In 2003 he was ordered to do 120 hours of community service after being found guilty of unlawful wounding after glassing a Bradford man.

Both Pryce and St Helens coach Mick Potter declined to comment but Potter confirmed the stand-off would play against his former club Bradford in Friday's engage Super League game at the GPW Recruitment Stadium.

Pryce has continued to play for his club despite the court case hanging over him and has hit a rich vein of form, with four tries in his last three appearances.

His position at St Helens is not thought to be under threat but St Helens chief executive Tony Colquitt did not rule out the possibility of the club handing out further punishment.

"Now he has received his sentence, the board will discuss the matter early next week and make a statement," said Colquitt.

The Rugby Football League have handed the matter over for consideration to their compliance manager but that, according to spokesman Craig Spence, is standard procedure.