Stuart MacGill’s alleged kidnappers granted bail | Greta Stonehouse
Brothers Frederick Schaaf, 28, and Richard Schaaf, 30, are accused of kidnapping the former spin bowler on April 14, 2021.The pair who face one charge of taking or detaining a person in company to get advantage and occasioning actual bodily harm were granted bail by Justice Richard Button on Thursday.
The Schaaf brothers’ barrister Avni Djemal submitted there was “a high level” of evidence that implicated MacGill in a drug transaction and was surprised he had not been charged over the incident.MacGill, 51, who was running a restaurant at the time, told police he was forced into a car at Cremorne on Sydney’s north shore and taken to Bringelly, south of Sydney.
The court was told that Frederick Schaaf had two phones, one located inside the car allegedly used in the kidnapping.
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