Australian bodybuilder that imported large quantities of steroids illegally was sentenced just to fine and probation

Brenton Dowell, a bodybuilder from Australia, was caught possessing and importing large amounts of anabolic steroids in March 2011. It was defined that these steroids could be sufficient to be applied for more than 60 years by one user. Many people thought that this bodybuilder would be sentenced to jail. But Dowell escaped from imprisonment successfully.
The Australian Customs and Border Protection Service reported that this bodybuilder had tried to import more than 3, 000 g of testosterone powder. The packages with the raw powder were mailed in September, October and November 2011. They were shipped to 3 different places: to the home of Dowell, 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, 000 g of raw steroid powder could be utilized for preparing of 1500 10-ml vials with ready preparations.
Len Hartnett, the defense attorney for Brenton Dowell, claimed that the steroid powder had been purchased for his client’s personal application. He added that Dowell’s intake of steroids was a response to bullying attacks which he received, when he was an overweight kid. So, according to the defense attorney Len Hartnett, Brenton Dowell became addicted to bodybuilding and began to administer steroids because he was an overweight child.
The judge Graeme Hicks was influenced by words of the defense attorney that presented experiences of Dowell in his childhood. He noted 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 believed that Brenton Dowell had bought steroids personal use and for sales to his friends in order to pay off personal administration.
The bodybuilder Brenton Dowell was enforced to pay a fine of 10, 000 dollars and to serve probation of two years.