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Stuart MacGill guilty of taking part in the supply of cocaine
ABC NEWS (Australia)
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3/13/2025
A jury has found former Australian cricketer, Stuart MacGill guilty of supplying cocaine.
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54-year-old Stuart McGill pleaded not guilty to participating in the supply of a prohibited
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drug.
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The New South Wales District Court heard that in April 2021, he introduced his drug dealer
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to his partner's brother, Marino Sotiropoulos, in the car park of his Neutral Bay restaurant,
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Aristotle's.
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Now, the crown case here was that that introduction amounted to the participation in the supply
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of a prohibited drug, because although Stuart McGill's involvement ended with his introduction,
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the court heard that those two men allegedly went on to organise a deal for $330,000 in
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exchange for one kilogram of cocaine.
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Now, the key crown witness in this trial was the drug dealer, who was known in court as
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Person A, but Person A gave evidence in a closed court.
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The defence team cast doubt on the drug dealer's credibility and said he had participated in
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dishonest conduct in a number of respects, but the crown pointed to his evidence and
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invited the jury to accept it as honest and reliable, saying that it was corroborated
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by other records before the court.
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Now, Stuart McGill stepped into the witness box in his own defence, and he told the jury
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that he had no knowledge of the supply deals that are alleged to have happened after he
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made this introduction.
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He said from his point of view, he was really trying to palm off his annoying brother-in-law
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On to someone who shared a common interest.
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He said that common interest, from Person A and Mr Sotiropoulos' point of view, would
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have been drugs in his mind.
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After about seven hours of deliberations, the jurors have reached a unanimous verdict
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this afternoon.
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They found Stuart McGill not guilty of taking part in the supply of a large commercial quantity
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of a prohibited drug, but they have found him guilty of an alternative charge, and that
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was taking part in the supply of a prohibited drug.
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That means that the charge that he has been found guilty of is essentially participation
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in supply without the element of the amount being a large commercial quantity.
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When he learned that verdict this afternoon, Stuart McGill gave no reaction from the dock,
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and his case will return to court in May for sentence proceedings.
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