Grant Hackett at centre of run-down claim Getting uglier ... Former couple Candice Alley and Grant Hackett. Australian champion swimmer Grant Hackett will front a Melbourne court to deny he tried to run down his former brother-in-law behind the wheel of a black Mercedes-Benz. Police have charged Jason Zurzolo with making a false report that Mr Hackett tried to run him over in South Yarra in November last year. Melbourne Magistrates Court heard on Tuesday that the alleged false report required police to investigate an offence of reckless conduct endangering serious injury. Mr Zurzolo, 37, is married to the sister of Mr Hackett's estranged wife, Candice Alley. The false report allegedly happened about seven months after Mr Hackett admitted he trashed the couple's Southbank apartment while drunk. He later told television show 60 minutes the incident, which occurred after attending the Derby Day race meeting at Flemington, would have been a "frightening prospect." In court on Tuesday, police prosecutor Senior Constable Jarrod Kenney said Mr Zurzolo was crossing a road and claimed that his former brother-in-law "literally tried to run him over" Senior Constable Kenney told Magistrate John Hardy, there was "evidence to suggest this did not occur." He said there was video footage which did not show the incident, but that Mr Zurzolo had responded that that footage was not of the incident. Senior Constable Kenney said he had a signed statement from the man alleged to have been the driver who would be called as a witness at a later contested hearing. Defence solicitor Emma Turnbull told the court she and her client had viewed the prosecution CCTV footage and that it did not alter her client's case. Ms Turnbull, of Turnbull Lawyers, said there were multiple shops in the area with other cameras that had better angles that depicted the incident. She said she had briefed barrister Bruce Nibbs to represent Mr Zurzolo. Mr Hardy adjourned the case for a half-day contested hearing on September 2 when Mr Zurzolo will plead not guilty to the one charge.