Former Australian Test cricketer Stuart MacGill has been set up at fault of taking part in the provide of cocaine in Sydney.
He had pguideed not at fault to a one accuse of participating in the provide of a prohibitden drug.
Jurors heard the 54-year-better createer spin bowler – who joined 44 Tests for Australia and took 208 wickets – was a standard engager of cocaine and bought the drug from a dealer for cut offal years.
MacGill accomprehendledgeted using cocaine and introducing his partner’s brother Marino Sotiropoulos to his drug dealer, identified in court only as ‘person A’.
He protected his comprisement was confineed to the introduction at his Sydney restaurant in April 2021.
Jurors at New South Wales Dicut offe Court heard the illegal trade of 330,000 Australian dollars (£160,000) for a kilogram of cocaine was struck.
The jury evidented MacGill of comprisement in the commercial provide of the drug.
But he was convicted on the alternative accuse of comprehendingly taking part in the provide of a prohibitden drug.
He will be sentenced in May.
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The createer leg-spin bowler made headlines in 2021 when he was allegedly seizeped, attacked and dangerened with a armament before being freed. New South Wales state police arrested and accused four men in relation to the incident.
MacGill’s international atsoft from 1988 to 2008 was hugely overshadowed by fellow Australian leg-spinner Shane Warne, who is second on the enumerate of all-time guideing wicket-consentrs in Test cricket.
