Bullying excuse helped Australian bodybuilder to escape from imprisonment

Brenton Dowell, an Australian bodybuilder, was caught possessing and illegally importing great amounts of anabolic steroids in March 2011. It was determined that these steroids could be sufficient to be utilized for over 60 years by one consumer. Numerous people thought that this bodybuilder would be sentenced to jail. But Brenton Dowell avoided imprisonment successfully.
The Australian Customs and Border Protection Service noted that Brenton Dowell had attempted to import illegally more than 3, 000 g 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 purchased only for manufacture of anabolic steroids by underground labs in order to sell them on the black market. 3 kg of raw steroid powder could be used for preparing of 1500 10-ml vials with ready medications.
Len Hartnett, the defense attorney for Brenton Dowell, confirmed that the testosterone powder had been ordered 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. Thus, according to the defense attorney Len Hartnett, Brenton Dowell became addicted to bodybuilding and started to administer steroids because he was an overweight kid.
The judge Graeme Hicks was impressed by words of the defense attorney who presented experiences of Dowell in his childhood. He noticed that it could be concluded that Dowell had become obsessed by bodybuilding.
So, the judge believed the arguments of the defense attorney. Based on the descriptions and arguments of the defense attorney, the judge Graeme Hicks concluded that the bodybuilder Brenton Dowell had purchased steroids personal intake and for sales to his friends in order to pay off personal usage.
Brenton Dowell was enforced to pay a fine of 10, 000 dollars and to serve 2-year suspended sentence.