Australian cricket star Stuart MacGill claims he was kidnapped, forced to strip naked, then beaten and threatened with having his fingers cut off with bolt cutters in a seedy farmhouse by a group of thugs led by a 150kg man he called the Big Guy .
The harrowing details of the 50-year-old s alleged ordeal are contained within his nine-page police statement that s been obtained and published by the The Sunday Telegraph, in which MacGill claims the gang were attempting to extract $150,000 to pay for a drug debt, police allege.
The statement confirms details of the incident first revealed by Daily Mail Australia, in which the spin bowler claims everything went wrong for him after introducing a mate called Sonny, a regular customer of his restaurant Aristotle , in Neutral Bay, Sydney, to his brother-in-law, Marino Sotiropoulos, on April 14.
Cricket: Police statement reveals terrifying Stuart MacGill kidnapping allegations
16 May, 2021 01:00 AM
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New details have emerged about the alleged kidnapping of former Australian test cricketer Stuart MacGill, 50, who was allegedly stripped, assaulted, and threatened at gunpoint for an hour.
In MacGill s police statement, the retired spin bowler claims he was kidnapped near his home in Sydney s north shore on April 14, strip-searched for wires and punched about eight times to his face and the back of his head, reports The Daily Telegraph.
MacGill s statement alleges the altercation happened a week after he introduced Marino Sotiropoulos (the brother of MacGill s partner, Marie O Meagher) to a drug dealer named Sonny, a regular customer at Aristotle, the restaurant run by MacGill and O Meagher.
01:02 EDT, 11 May 2021
New details have emerged of how an undercover police operation investigating the alleged abduction of former cricketer Stuart MacGill helped gather the damning evidence needed to make four arrests.
The retired spin bowler was allegedly confronted outside his unit on Sydney s lower north shore on April 14, forced into a vehicle and taken 60 kilometres to Bringelly in western Sydney.
MacGill was allegedly held against his will after becoming embroiled in an alleged $660,000 cocaine rip-off before he was driven to Belmore and released.
Marino Sotiropoulos, the brother of MacGill s girlfriend Maria O Meagher was one of four men arrested last week, along with Son Minh Nguyen Nguyen, 42, Richard Schaaf, 29, and his brother Frederick, 27.
06:08 EDT, 10 May 2021
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Cricket star Stuart MacGill was held against his will for four hours after becoming embroiled in an alleged $660,000 cocaine rip-off, according to court documents.
The retired leg spinner has made a nine-page statement about his alleged ordeal which was tendered in court on Monday along with a statement by his girlfriend Maria O Meagher.
Police allege MacGill was kidnapped after unwittingly introducing an acquaintance, known only as Sonny, to Marino Sotiropoulos, the brother of Ms O Meagher.
Sotiropoulos allegedly supplied Sonny with 2kg of cocaine sourced from an unnamed dealer but Sonny failed to pay for the drugs and has since gone to ground.