The fall of St Kilda star Sam Fisher, and how he plans to help after his drug sentence

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In the precocious 2000s, Sam Fisher was apical of his crippled and revelling successful football’s highest honours: All-Australian, St Kilda’s champion and fairest, 2 consecutive expansive finals successful 2009 and 2010.

But connected Monday, that representation was successful stark opposition to the fig successful the dock. Fisher, present 41, dabbed distant tears arsenic his lawyer Dermot Dann, KC, elaborate to justice Gerard Mullaly however drugs had destroyed Fisher’s life.

Sam Fisher (centre) arrives to questions from reporters astatine the County Court of Victoria successful Melbourne.

Fisher pleaded blameworthy earlier this period successful the Victorian Country Court to trafficking a ample commercialized quantity of methamphetamine, trafficking cocaine and 1,4-Butanediol, and 3 counts of cause possession.

Mullaly had antecedently indicated helium would jailhouse Fisher for a maximum 5 years and 4 months if helium pleaded guilty.

Carrying a achromatic suitcase packed for prison, Fisher appeared affectional arsenic Dann argued that his situation condemnation should beryllium reduced due to the fact that of Fisher’s mediocre affectional state, carnal ill-health and blameworthy plea, and the interaction his apprehension and prosecution has had connected his family.

“We accidental helium is simply a bully person, a very, precise bully person, who got into a very, precise atrocious situation,” Dann told Mullaly astatine the pre-sentence hearing.

“His offending should beryllium seen successful that precise sad, troubled context.”

The tribunal heard West Australian constabulary had discovered a suspicious parcel bound for Victoria successful April 2022 with $129,000 currency inside. They traced the bundle to the archetypal sender, a antheral from Western Australian named Julien Morvan.

The tribunal was told connected Monday that Morvan and Fisher had exchanged respective messages connected the encrypted app Signal – Fisher sending messages to Morvan nether the moniker “Fish” – successful which they plotted the trafficking of drugs hidden successful household room appliances.

In 1 incident, the brace planned to cod a room scope hood from Moorabbin and present it to a Hampton store connected to Morvan’s father, earlier its eventual planned postage to Western Australia, the tribunal heard.

A tribunal sketch of Fisher facing Melbourne Magistrates’ Court successful 2022.

Morvan regularly utilized his father’s store, the tribunal heard, arsenic a destination to assistance his trafficking operation, without his father’s knowledge.

Detectives aboriginal seized the oven scope hood bought online from Harvey Norman successful Western Australia. An introspection of the appliance uncovered 996 grams of methamphetamine and 82 grams of cocaine.

Soon after, successful May 2022, investigators from Trident Taskforce raided Fisher’s Sandringham apartment, car and retention cage, wherever they recovered methamphetamine, LSD, valium, diazepam, 1,4 Butanediol, a quality maturation hormone kit and 8 syringes.

Dann said Fisher had worked towards rehabilitation for 2 years since being arrested, but conceded that helium “has to wage a terms for his involvement” and indispensable spell to situation for a “significant period”.

We believe, successful the future, fixed the opportunity, this benignant of idiosyncratic could usage these events and nationalist persona to person a genuine affirmative interaction connected society.

Dermot Dann, KC

“We believe, successful the future, fixed the opportunity, this benignant of idiosyncratic could usage these events and nationalist persona to person a genuine affirmative interaction connected society,” Dann said.

“Many, galore radical privation to enactment this man, including the players’ relation and St Kilda Football Club, and you’ll spot those references.”

The tribunal heard that owed to ineligible expenses, Fisher’s father, present retired, mightiness person to instrumentality to work. Both of his parents supported him successful tribunal connected Monday.

Mullaly volition condemnation Fisher, who is connected bail, connected May 16.

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