Quantities of steroids that were imported by Australian bodybuilder could be sufficient to be used for over 60 years by one person

Brenton Dowell, a bodybuilder from Australia, was caught possessing and importing great quantities of anabolic steroids in March 2011. It was defined that these steroids could be sufficient to be applied for over 60 years by one user. A lot of individuals believed that this bodybuilder would be sentenced to prison. But Brenton Dowell escaped from imprisonment successfully.
The Australian Customs and Border Protection Service claimed that the bodybuilder Brenton Dowell had tried to smuggle more than 3, 000 g of testosterone powder. The packages which contained the raw steroid powder were mailed in September, October and November 2011. They were directed to three different places: to the home of Dowell, to his father and his stepfather.
Actually, such large quantities of raw testosterone powder could be purchased just for manufacture of anabolic steroids by underground labs for selling them on the black market. 3, 000 g of raw steroid powder could be utilized for preparing of 1500 10-ml vials with ready products.
Len Hartnett, the defense attorney for Brenton Dowell, claimed that the testosterone powder had been purchased for his client’s personal administration. He added that Dowell’s usage of steroids was caused by bullying attacks that he received, when he was an overweight kid. So, according to the defense attorney, Brenton Dowell became addicted to bodybuilding and began to utilize steroids because he was an overweight kid.
The judge Graeme Hicks was influenced by arguments of the defense attorney that presented experiences of Dowell in his childhood. The judge Graeme Hicks noted that it could be concluded that Brenton Dowell had become obsessed by bodybuilding.
Thus, the judge believed the arguments of the defense attorney. Based on the descriptions and affirmations of the defense attorney, the judge Graeme Hicks believed that Brenton Dowell had ordered steroids personal administration and for sales to his friends in order to pay off personal use.
Brenton Dowell was enforced to pay a fine of 10, 000 dollars and to serve 2-year suspended sentence.