AC/DC drummer Phil Rudd plead guilty to drug and murder threat charges
AC/DC drummer Phil Rudd has been plead guilty to threatening to kill and drug charges before the trial began in New Zealand, it has been revealed.
The New Zealand-based Australian drummer was due to stand trial at the Tauranga district court in New Zealand but he changed his plea to guilty before the trial began, the Guardian reported.
The 60-year-old drummer was arrested in November and charged over an incident on 26 September in which, according to a police summary of facts, Rudd rang a man he knew and threatened to kill both him and his daughter.
AC/DC in February announced it had replaced Rudd with former drummer Chris Slade ahead of its Rock or Bust world tour.