Bullying excuse for illegal importation of large quantities of steroids

Brenton Dowell, an Australian bodybuilder, was caught possessing and importing large quantities of anabolic steroids in March 2011. It was determined that these steroids could be sufficient to be utilized for more than 60 years by a person. A lot of people believed that this bodybuilder would be sentenced to jail. But Brenton Dowell avoided imprisonment successfully.
The Australian Customs and Border Protection Service confirmed that the bodybuilder Brenton Dowell had attempted to smuggle over 3, 000 g of testosterone powder. The packages that contained the raw steroid powder were mailed in September, October and November 2011. They were shipped to 3 various places: to the home of Dowell, to his father and his stepfather.
Actually, such large amounts of raw testosterone powder could be bought just for manufacture of anabolic steroids by underground labs in order to sell them on the black market. 3, 000 g of raw testosterone powder could be used for preparing of 1500 10-ml vials with ready drugs.
Len Hartnett, the defense attorney for Brenton Dowell, claimed that the testosterone powder had been purchased for his client’s personal application. He noticed that Dowell’s intake of steroids was a response to bullying attacks that he received, when he was an overweight boy. So, according to Len Harnett, Brenton Dowell became addicted to bodybuilding and started to take steroids because he was an overweight kid.
The judge Graeme Hicks was impressed by arguments of the defense attorney Len Harnett that presented experiences of Dowell in his childhood. He mentioned that it could be concluded that Dowell had become obsessed by bodybuilding.
So, the judge accepted bullying excuse. Based on the descriptions and affirmations of the defense attorney, the judge Graeme Hicks concluded that the bodybuilder Brenton Dowell had purchased steroids personal usage and for sales to his friends in order to pay off self-administration.
The bodybuilder Brenton Dowell was sentenced to a fine of 10, 000 dollars and 2-year probation.