Australian bodybuilders continue to use bullying excuse for importation of steroids successfully

Brenton Dowell, an Australian bodybuilder, was caught possessing and smuggling significant amounts of anabolic steroids in March 2011. It was determined that these steroids could be sufficient to be administered for over sixty years by a person. A lot of people believed that this bodybuilder would be sentenced to prison. But Dowell avoided imprisonment successfully.
The Australian Customs and Border Protection Service noted that this bodybuilder had tried to import illegally over 3 kg of testosterone powder. The packages that contained the raw testosterone powder were mailed in September, October and November 2011. They were directed to 3 various places: to Dowell’s home, to his father and his stepfather.
In fact, such large amounts of raw testosterone powder could be bought just for manufacture of anabolic steroids by underground labs for selling them on the black market. 3 kg of raw steroid powder could be used for preparing of 1500 10-ml vials with ready medicines.
Len Hartnett, the defense attorney for Brenton Dowell, claimed that the testosterone powder had been purchased for his client’s personal administration. He noted that Dowell’s administration of steroids was a response to bullying attacks which he received, when he was an overweight child. So, according to the defense attorney Len Hartnett, Brenton Dowell became addicted to bodybuilding and began to utilize steroids because he was an overweight kid.
The judge Graeme Hicks was impressed by affirmations of the defense attorney Len Harnett who described experiences of Brenton Dowell in his childhood. The judge Graeme Hicks noted that it could be concluded that Dowell had become obsessed by bodybuilding.
So, the judge accepted bullying excuse. Based on the descriptions and arguments of the defense attorney, the judge Graeme Hicks believed that Brenton Dowell had ordered steroids personal intake and for sales to his friends in order to pay off personal use.
Brenton Dowell was sentenced to a fine of 10, 000 dollars and probation of two years.