Three weeks after he was allegedly concerned within the intimidation and verbal abuse of a bar proprietor in Sydney, former Australian Test cricketer Stuart MacGill has pleaded not responsible to the accusation. Since he’s self-isolating after testing optimistic for COVID-19, the 51-year previous former spin bowler was unable to attend the Downing Centre in Sydney on Wednesday.
Samantha Ford, the licensee of The Argyle in The Rocks, was allegedly verbally abused by MacGill and one other man outdoors a property and later at a pub on Kent Street in Millers Point on February 1, in response to police. MacGill was charged with threatening and utilizing disagreeable language in a public place after turning himself in to the Day Street Police Station on Friday.
To shield Ms Ford, police requested the courtroom to challenge an AVO towards MacGill. After his pleas of not responsible had been entered, Magistrate Susan Horan ordered him to have his bail continued. In reference to the incident with Ms Ford, one other man, Stephen Kerlin, 54, was charged with frequent assault, intimidation, and breaking an AVO.
These prices towards the previous Australian cricketer are the newest in a collection of controversial incidents in his life since final yr. MacGill claims he was kidnapped from a road close to his Cremorne home on April 14 final yr after a cocaine deal went awry. He was allegedly bodily abused earlier than being launched at Belmore after being pushed to a rural home in Bringelly in Sydney’s south-west.
MacGill knowledgeable police that his attackers stripped him bare and threatened to chop off his fingers except he handed up $150,000. Police believed he was harmless and was held liable for the bungled mission after his confederate allegedly stole 2 kg of the heroin from his kidnappers.
MacGill and his accomplice Maria O’Meagher introduced in June final yr that they had been closing the Aristotles restaurant that they had co-owned in Sydney’s Neutral Bay after the owner demanded a hire hike.
MacGill is scheduled to seem in courtroom once more in September.
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