Former Australian player makes a shocking revelation about getting kidnapped
Stuart MacGill (Image Source: Twitter)
Former Australian spinner Stuart MacGill opened up on a scary kidnapping incident in an interview with SEN WA Breakfast on Saturday (18 June 2022). The incident took over 15 months back as the cricketer got to be dumped out of the car in April 2021.
After investigation, four men had been arrested so far. However, one among them was found to be Marino Sotiropoulos, the brother of his partner, Maria O’Meagher. In this interview, he shared some scary moments from that incident as he is bound to share details before it goes to court until October next year.
“It was not something you’d even like to happen to your worst enemy,” – Stuart MacGill
Speaking about the incident, the former Australian player said it was something that you would not like to happen to your worst enemy also. He also said that there were armed men who convinced him to enter the car where they were together for 90 minutes. He said: “Later in the day, it was getting quite dark, I was bundled into a car. I didn’t want to get into the car, I said to them twice, ‘I’m not getting in the car,’ but then it became obvious they were armed, and they said, ‘We know you’re not involved, we just want to have a chat,’ then they put me in the car, and I was in the car for an hour and a half,”
MacGill also added that he was completely scared and unaware of the directions where they took him. He said that they beat him and stripped him naked before dropping him at Belmore. MacGill added: “I didn’t know where we were, I didn’t know where we were going and I was scared. From that point, they stripped me naked, beat me up, threatened me, and then just dumped me. That was over the course of maybe three hours out in the middle of nowhere in a little shed.”
MacGill also shared that after this horrifying incident, he just ran away for a month. He shared: “I basically ran away for a month afterward. Maria chucked me in the back of her car, I was in the boot, I got out of my unit, then I had a couple of mates who very generously put me up in hotels around Sydney for two or three weeks, and then I went away with (a friend). We ended up driving up the coast of New South Wales and through Queensland and ended up on Fraser Island, so all up I was probably away for six weeks or so. By the time I got home most of the guys had been arrested, which was good,” he concluded.
