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 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.