Stuart MacGill charged over alleged function in cocaine provide plot
F
ormer Australian cricketer Stuart MacGill has been charged over his alleged involvement in a deal to provide large-scale portions of cocaine.
The 52-year-old, who performed 44 instances for Australia in a decade-long Test profession that resulted in 2008, was arrested in his homeland earlier this week.
The arrest follows a police investigation into an incident by which MacGill was allegedly kidnapped again in April 2021.
MacGill advised police on the time that he had been pressured right into a automobile within the Sydney suburb of Cremorne and pushed to town’s outskirts, the place he was overwhelmed and threatened at gunpoint earlier than later being launched.
Six individuals are due in court docket over that incident later this month however police have now additionally charged MacGill with collaborating within the provide of a big industrial amount of a prohibited drug. Reports within the Australian media declare the plot concerned greater than $300,000 price of cocaine.
He has but to enter a plea and has been launched on bail forward of a deliberate court docket listening to on October 26.
MacGill was a highly-rated leg-spinner all through his profession however suffered when it got here to worldwide choice for the presence of Shane Warne, struggling to nail down an everyday place within the Australian facet.
As a outcome, nearly all of his caps got here when Warne was both injured or banned, or else on the events when Australia fielded two spinners. Even so, MacGill completed his profession with greater than 200 Test wickets, together with a series-leading 27 within the 1998/99 Ashes win.