'Fall from grace': Ex-spinner Stuart MacGill spared jail for coke deal

An ex-Australian Test cricketer will service a organization condemnation aft being convicted complete a cocaine woody which led to his convulsive kidnapping.

Former legspinner Stuart MacGill supplied narcotics for nan woody betwixt his regular trader and his brother-in-law successful April 2021, a assemblage recovered successful March.

The 54-year-old knew nan cocaine was worthy $330,000 but he was oblivious to nan truth that a one-kilogram ceramic had changed hands.

Jurors recovered him not blameworthy of taking portion successful a ample commercialized supplier proviso but recovered him blameworthy of nan lesser complaint of supplying an indictable amount of coke.

MacGill appeared astatine Downing Centre District Court connected Friday wherever a connection from erstwhile Test skipper Steve Waugh backed his erstwhile colleague.

He was sentenced to an intensive corrections bid of 1 twelvemonth and 10 months.

MacGill must complete 495 hours of organization work activity and acquisition supplier testing arsenic portion of nan order, successful lieu of a situation term.

Judge Nicole Noman recovered nan ex-legspinner played an indispensable domiciled mounting up nan cocaine deal.

"His domiciled was basal to bring nan parties together and for nan transaction to occur," she said.

The lucrative cocaine woody put MacGill connected nan way to his convulsive kidnapping aft his supplier trader stole 2 bricks of cocaine successful a supplier ripoff.

The kidnapping past spurred adverse media reports against him."

The offender's colossal lapse of judgement has been causative of a very nationalist autumn from grace," nan judge said.

MacGill retired from cricket successful 2008 aft playing 44 Tests during which he claimed 208 scalps.