An ABC presenter has escaped being sent to jail despite being convicted of selling drugs after a police raid uncovered a stash of illegal substances inside his Sydney CBD hotel room.
Ashley Norman Hall, 50, on Friday sat in silence in Sydney's Downing Centre Local Court as he was sentenced for a string of drug offences following his December, 2019 arrest.
The ABC radio journalist and presenter was tight lipped as he left court alongside his lawyer after he was sentenced to a 12-month community corrections order.
According to an agreed statement of facts, police found a cache of ice, MDMA, cocaine, cannabis, LSD and the party drug gamma-Butyrolactone along with drug paraphernalia when they searched his 24th floor room at the Meriton Suites on Pitt Street.