Former Australian cricketer Stuart MacGill was allegedly kidnapped at gunpoint, threatened and assaulted in April, it was revealed on Wednesday, as New South Wales police arrested four men suspected of the attack.
Police allege that on April 14 at about 8pm MacGill was approached by a man in Sydney’s affluent Lower North Shore before two other men appeared and allegedly forced him into a car.
MacGill was then allegedly driven to a property in Bringelly, on the outskirts of Sydney, where he was allegedly assaulted and threatened with a firearm before being released about an hour later in Belmore, almost 40km away.
Local media reported that MacGill’s kidnappers had been seeking a ransom.
On Wednesday morning New South Wales police arrested four men, aged 27, 29, 42 and 46, in a pre-dawn raid and announced that charges are expected to be laid.