{"id":29102,"date":"2025-03-13T06:58:28","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T10:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=29102"},"modified":"2025-03-13T06:58:28","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T10:58:28","slug":"former-australian-test-cricketer-stuart-macgill-found-guilty-of-taking-part-in-the-supply-of-cocaine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2025\/03\/13\/former-australian-test-cricketer-stuart-macgill-found-guilty-of-taking-part-in-the-supply-of-cocaine\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Australian Test cricketer Stuart MacGill found guilty of taking part in the supply of cocaine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Australian Test cricketer Stuart MacGill has been found guilty of taking part in the supply of cocaine in Sydney.<\/p>\n

He had pleaded not guilty to a single charge of participating in the supply of a prohibited drug.<\/p>\n

Jurors heard the 54-year-old former spin bowler – who played 44 Tests for\u00a0Australia<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0and took 208 wickets – was a regular user of cocaine and bought the drug from a dealer for several years.<\/p>\n

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MacGill will be sentenced in May. (Image: AP)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

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MacGill admitted using cocaine and introducing his partner’s brother Marino Sotiropoulos to his drug dealer, identified in court only as ‘person A’.<\/p>\n

He maintained his involvement was limited to the introduction at his Sydney restaurant in April 2021.<\/p>\n

Jurors at New South Wales District Court heard the illicit exchange of 330,000 Australian dollars (\u00a3160,000) for a kilogram of cocaine was struck.<\/p>\n

The jury cleared MacGill of involvement in the commercial supply of the drug.<\/p>\n

But he was convicted on the alternative charge of knowingly taking part in the supply of a prohibited drug.<\/p>\n

He will be sentenced in May.<\/p>\n

The former leg-spin bowler made headlines in 2021 when he was allegedly kidnapped, assaulted and threatened with a gun before being released. New South Wales state police arrested and charged four men in relation to the incident.<\/p>\n

MacGill’s international career from 1988 to 2008 was largely overshadowed by fellow Australian leg-spinner Shane Warne, who is second on the list of all-time leading wicket-takers in Test cricket.<\/p>\n

Source: \u00a0\"Sky<\/a> news.sky.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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