Guilty: Cricket great’s role in cocaine deal exposed as bombshell verdict delivered
Steve Zemek Cricketing great Stuart MacGill has been found guilty of facilitating a cocaine deal between his brother-in-law and a street-level drug dealer after a jury rejected his claim that he simply introduced the pair.Thursday returned the guilty verdict following an eight-day trial in the NSW District Court.
The crown alleged during the trial Person A - who was MacGill’s regular cocaine dealer - and Mr Sotiropoulos - came to an agreement to exchange $330,000 for 1kg of cocaine.Source: News Corp Australia Ms Steedman told the court that MacGill had acted as a go-between between the pair before setting up a meeting underneath Aristotle’s restaurant - which MacGill ran with his partner Maria O’Meagher - on April 8, 2021.It was not alleged that MacGill was present when the actual exchange later took place in a park in Ashfield.
MacGill denied that he acted as a go-between to negotiate the terms of the deal before setting up a meeting underneath his restaurant.Source: News Corp Australia“I was not aware of any drug supply,” MacGill told the jury.
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