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The jury has been discharged within the trial towards cricketing nice Stuart MacGill, who was preventing allegations he facilitated a $330,000 drug deal
Mr MacGill was standing trial in Sydney’s Downing Centre District Courtroom having pleaded not responsible to 1 rely of collaborating within the provide of a big industrial amount of a prohibited drug.
The Crown prosecution has alleged he performed a job and facilitated the deal, involving a drug supplier referred to as Particular person A and his accomplice’s brother.
Mr MacGill’s defence instructed the court docket that the previous cricketer had no data of the drug deal and acquired no advantages.
The jury had heard three days of proof.
On Friday, Decide Nicole Noman instructed the jury it had been discharged.
Stuart MacGill is pictured outdoors a Sydney court docket on Friday, simply earlier than the decide in his trial made an enormous choice in regards to the proceedings
She gave the jury her rationale for making the choice, however that can not be reported on account of authorized causes.
‘I’ve made a dedication that you simply have to be discharged, so that may conclude your involvement,’ Noman instructed the jury.
‘I can let you know had been invested on this matter, so I apologise.’
Mr MacGill will now seem earlier than the court docket once more at a later date, with the matter on account of return to court docket on Monday, with a brand new jury to be chosen.
