03:13 EDT, 6 May 2021
Cricket star Stuart MacGill and his girlfriend have put on a united front in a cryptic message to their restaurant customers just a day after her brother was charged with kidnapping and assaulting the sporting legend. We look forward to seeing you all soon at Aristotle s Neutral Bay, MacGill and Maria O Meagher wrote beneath a photograph of the pair together.
The message was posted to the social media accounts of the Greek restaurant Ms O Meagher owns and MacGill manages, on Sydney s lower north shore.
The cryptic message came just 24-hours after police revealed the retired leg-spinner, 50, was confronted and bundled into a car by three men on Sydney s lower north shore on April 14, and later beaten up.
Crime by Mark Morri, Josh Hanrahan and Lachlan Leeming 6th May 2021 10:33 AM
Premium Content  Terrified former Test cricket star Stuart MacGill hid out in a nondescript motel for nearly a week in fear of his life after allegedly being abducted at gunpoint by members of an accused crime syndicate. The former spin wizard booked himself into the motel rather than return to his north shore home near where he was grabbed off the street and bundled into a car. It is alleged that somehow MacGill got himself tangled up between two syndicates involved in a drug deal, believed to be worth up to $2 million. A senior NSW police officer alleged to The Daily Telegraph that MacGill was somehow caught up in a dispute between the two groups and, as a result, they kidnapped him .
Crime by Candace Sutton Police have emphatically declared Stuart MacGill was purely a victim of kidnapping and did not have any personal debt to the four men who allegedly abducted him at gunpoint. The Australian Test cricket great did not inform police for a week about the alleged April 14 incident because he felt threatened and scared . A NSW Police press conference about MacGill s ordeal has heard the legendary spin bowler was quite scared about going to police at all after allegedly being abducted and beaten for ransom. What police will allege happened in the kidnapping Police allege MacGill was forced into a vehicle at Cremorne, on Sydney s Lower North Shore on April 14 and taken to a property where he was assaulted and threatened with a firearm.
07:00 EDT, 6 May 2021
Stuart MacGill was allegedly kidnapped and beaten after an acquaintance of the cricketing great failed to pay for 2kg of cocaine worth about $600,000.
Daily Mail Australia understands MacGill innocently introduced Marino Sotiropoulos, the brother of his girlfriend Maria O Meagher, to a mystery man known only as Sonny.
MacGill and Sotiropoulos were once close but the retired leg spin bowler s association with Sonny is unclear and there is no suggestion he knew he was allegedly a drug dealer.
Sotiropoulos later allegedly helped supply Sonny with 2kg of cocaine provided by another unknown dealer who was never paid for the drugs.
02:06 EDT, 7 May 2021
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Shocking images inside the rundown property on Sydney s outskirts where former Australian cricketer Stuart MacGill was allegedly held captive at gunpoint and beaten up by three men last month have emerged.
Police allege the retired leg-spinner, 50, was confronted and bundled into a car by three men on Sydney s lower north shore on April 14 before being driven 60km to a two hectare property in Bringelly in the city s south-west.
He was allegedly held captive inside the property for an hour and bashed before he was driven 38km to Belmore.
The shocking state inside the property where MacGill allegedly endured his harrowing ordeal was revealed for the first time on Thursday.