However it is evident that Australian bodybuilder has imported raw steroid powder for distribution, judge believed that he had done it for self-administration

Brenton Dowell, an Australian bodybuilder, was caught possessing and illegally importing large quantities of anabolic steroids in March 2011. It was determined that these steroids could be sufficient to be used for more than sixty years by a person. A lot of 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 tried to import over 3 kg of testosterone powder. The packages which contained the raw steroid powder were mailed in September, October and November 2011. They were directed to three various places: to Dowell’s home, to his father and his stepfather.
In fact, such large quantities of raw testosterone powder could be bought 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 used for getting of 1500 10-ml vials with ready preparations.
Len Hartnett, the defense attorney for Brenton Dowell, claimed that the steroid powder had been ordered for his client’s personal intake. He added that Dowell’s administration of steroids was a response to bullying attacks that he received, when he was an overweight boy. So, according to Len Harnett, Brenton Dowell became addicted to bodybuilding and began to use steroids because he was an overweight child.
The judge Graeme Hicks was influenced by words of the defense attorney Len Harnett that described experiences of Dowell in his childhood. The judge added that it could be concluded that Dowell had become obsessed by bodybuilding.
Thus, the judge believed the arguments of Len Harnett. Based on the descriptions and affirmations of the defense attorney, the judge Graeme Hicks believed that the bodybuilder Brenton Dowell had bought steroids for self-administration and for sales to his friends in order to pay off personal administration.
Brenton Dowell was sentenced to a fine of 10, 000 dollars and probation of two years.