Australian bodybuilder purchased over 3 kg of testosterone powder for self-administration

Brenton Dowell, a bodybuilder from Australia, was caught possessing and illegally importing great quantities of anabolic steroids in March 2011. It was defined that these steroids could be sufficient to be administered for over 60 years by one consumer. A lot of individuals thought that this bodybuilder would be sentenced to prison. But Brenton Dowell avoided imprisonment successfully.
The Australian Customs and Border Protection Service reported that this bodybuilder had tried to smuggle over 3 kg of testosterone powder. The packages with the raw testosterone powder were mailed in September, October and November 2011. They were directed to 3 different places: to the home of Dowell, to his father and his stepfather.
Actually, such large amounts of raw testosterone powder could be bought just for manufacture of anabolic steroids by underground labs in order to sell them on the black market. 3 kg of raw steroid powder could be used for getting of 1500 10-ml vials with ready drugs.
Len Hartnett, the defense attorney for Brenton Dowell, argued that the steroid powder had been bought for his client’s personal usage. He noticed that Dowell’s administration of steroids was a response to bullying attacks which he received, when he was an overweight boy. Thus, according to Len Harnett, Brenton Dowell became addicted to bodybuilding and began to utilize steroids because he was an overweight child.
The judge Graeme Hicks was influenced by affirmations of the defense attorney Len Harnett who presented experiences of Brenton Dowell in his childhood. The judge noticed that it could be concluded that Dowell had become obsessed by bodybuilding.
Thus, the judge believed the arguments of the defense attorney. Based on the descriptions and arguments of the defense attorney, the judge Graeme Hicks concluded that Brenton Dowell had purchased steroids for self-administration and for sales to his friends in order to pay off personal usage.
The bodybuilder Brenton Dowell was enforced to pay a fine of 10, 000 dollars and to serve probation of two years.