Former Australian Check cricketer Stuart MacGill has didn’t overturn a conviction for drug provide over a cocaine deal that led to his kidnapping.
The ex-leg spinner was a daily consumer of cocaine when he launched his supplier to a different man in April 2021.
The 55-year-old knew the amount of cocaine exchanged was valued at $330,000 however didn’t know the precise weight after being instructed the supplier wished ‘a brick’.
In Could 2025, he was convicted of participating within the provide of 250g or much less of cocaine and sentenced to a 22-month intensive corrections order and 495 hours of group service.
However the former cricketing nice launched an attraction towards each the conviction and sentence within the NSW Court docket of Prison Attraction, which was rejected on Wednesday.
‘The attraction is dismissed,’ Justice Anthony Payne instructed the court docket, greater than a yr after the sentence was handed down.
Ex-cricket star Stuart MacGill (pictured exterior court docket) has didn’t overturn his conviction for his involvement in a cocaine deal
The deal in 2021 went fallacious and led to the 55-year-old being kidnapped and assaulted
MacGill (pictured proper with Shane Warne) was a daily cocaine consumer who had a $1000 drug debt wiped by his supplier for his involvement within the deal, a court docket heard
MacGill had argued the decide erred in figuring out the precise amount of medication the cricketer thought had been being exchanged through the deal.
He didn’t obtain any of the $330,000 from the trade however had $1000 of drug debt wiped by his supplier.
The deal led to MacGill later being assaulted in a dilapidated rural shed after his supplier stole two bricks of cocaine in a subsequent drug ripoff.
As soon as seen as one of many world’s high spin bowlers, MacGill is now on JobSeeker whereas working as an off-the-cuff cricket coach.
He retired from cricket in 2008 after a profession throttled by the game’s best leg-spinner, Shane Warne, who was two years his senior.
MacGill performed 44 Checks, claiming 208 wickets at a mean of 29.02.
