Sydney: Australian police arrested four men in dawn raids on Wednesday in connection with the alleged kidnap and assault of former test cricketer Stuart MacGill.
MacGill, was a Test spinner for the national team between 1998 and 2008. At one point, he was ranked the world’s second-best bowler behind his team-mate Shane Warne.
According to Police, on April 14, the 50-year-old MacGill was confronted by some men at an intersection and bundled into a vehicle.
New South Wales Police said the arrests, which took place after raids were conducted across Sydney on Wednesday, were the result of a two-week-long investigation.
Police allege MacGill had been approached and confronted in the Sydney suburb of Cremorne one evening by a 46-year-old man he knew.
He was driven to a remote site in Bringelly, on the city’s outskirts, where he was allegedly assaulted and threatened at gunpoint by the “criminal gang”, police said.
After about an hour, he was driven to the south-west suburb of Belmore and released, police said.
After extensive investigations a police strike force and riot officers arrested four men aged 27, 29, 42 and 46, in the early hours of Wednesday. Although no ransom was paid police believe the kidnapping was financially motivated.
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