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The former Australian Test cricketer may have lied about being attacked and kidnapped during a drug transaction he allegedly helped organise, a judge has been told.
The 50-year-old has been unable to lead police to the man they believe executed a $660,000 cocaine rip-off which allegedly led to the retired leg spin bowler's kidnapping despite him being a friend.
'One starts to wonder whether Mr MacGill is a reliable witness,' solicitor Greg Goold told Sutherland Local Court. on Wednesday. 'One wonders... whether there was indeed a kidnapping.'
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 b...
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Cricket: Police statement reveals terrifying Stuart MacGill kidnapping allegations 16 May, 2021 01:00 AM 3 minutes to read news.com.au 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 all...