Bodybuilder that imported over 3 kg of testosterone powder avoided imprisonment

Brenton Dowell, a bodybuilder from Australia, was caught possessing and importing significant quantities of anabolic steroids in March 2011. It was determined that these steroids could be sufficient to be applied for over 60 years by one consumer. Numerous individuals thought that this bodybuilder would be sentenced to prison. But Brenton Dowell escaped from imprisonment successfully.
The Australian Customs and Border Protection Service noted that Brenton Dowell had attempted to smuggle over 3, 000 g of testosterone powder. The packages with the raw steroid 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.
Actually, such large quantities of raw powder could be bought just for manufacture of anabolic steroids by underground labs for selling them on the black market. 3, 000 g of raw testosterone powder could be utilized for getting of 1500 10-ml vials with ready medicines.
Len Hartnett, the defense attorney for Brenton Dowell, argued that the steroid powder had been bought for his client’s personal intake. He noted that Dowell’s usage of steroids was a response to bullying attacks that he received, when he was an overweight boy. So, according to the defense attorney Len Hartnett, Brenton Dowell became addicted to bodybuilding and began to take steroids because he was an overweight child.
The judge Graeme Hicks was influenced by words of the defense attorney that presented experiences of Brenton Dowell in his childhood. The judge Graeme Hicks 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 believed that Brenton Dowell had purchased steroids for self-administration and for sales to his friends in order to pay off personal intake.
Brenton Dowell was enforced to pay a fine of 10, 000 dollars and to serve probation of two years.