Australian spin bowler Stuart McGill charged with stalking and intimidating a woman after ‘verbally abusing’ bar owner – as police apply for protection order against him
- Stuart McGill charged on Friday with intimidating a woman earlier this month
- Spin bowler allegedly verbally abused owner of popular Sydney bar The Argyle
- He and another man are said to have confronted her twice within minutes
- The second man, Stephen Kerlin, has also been charged with assaulting her
Former Australian spin bowler Stuart McGill has been charged with intimidating a woman after an alleged row with a Sydney bar owner.
McGill will face court on Wednesday over allegedly abusing Samantha Lorraine Ford, the licensee of The Argyle bar in The Rocks on Sydney’s harbourside.
It comes just months after he was the alleged victim of a kidnap plot after a court heard he was innocently implicated in a failed drugs deal.
Police will allege McGill, 51, and another man Stephen Kerlin, 54, approached Ms Ford outside a home on Kent St, Millers Point, about 6pm on February 1.
Former Australian spin bowler Stuart McGill (pictured with partner Maria O’Meagher) has been charged with intimidating a woman after an alleged row with a Sydney bar owner
McGill will face court on Wednesday over allegedly abusing Samantha Lorraine Ford, the licensee of The Argyle bar (pictured) in The Rocks on Sydney’s harbourside
They are alleged to have verbally abused her then left the area, only to confront her a short time later outside a nearby bar on the same street to shout abuse again.
Kerlin is then accused of assaulting the woman, before both men left the area.
Police were alerted and Kerlin was arrested at a home on Towns Place in Millers Point around 7.30pm that night.
He was taken to Day Street Police Station where he was charged with intimidation, common assault and contravening restrictions in an AVO.
Further enquiries led police to charge McGill on Friday. He is accused of intimidation and using offence language in a public place.
He was granted conditional bail and will appear at Downing Centre Local Court on February 23. Kerlin will face court again on September 1.
The alleged plot was related to his job as manager at Aristotle restaurant (pictured) in Sydney’s Neutral Bay which was owned by his partner, Maria O’Meagher
Strike Force Cain was assembled following the kidnapping of McGill at Cremorne in April.
Six people have been charged connected to his kidnapping so far, which bail hearings have heard was related to a botched drug deal.
The retired leg spinner was allegedly confronted by three men in Cremorne, in Sydney’s lower North Shore on April 14, bundled into a car and driven 60km to a two hectare property in Bringelly in the city’s south-west.
He was allegedly stripped naked and beaten until he blacked out in a decrepit shack by captors who threatened to cut off his fingers if he didn’t hand over $150,000 in what police say was a botched cocaine deal thatMacGill had nothing to do with.
Strike Force Cain was assembled following the kidnapping of McGill at Cremorne in April
The extent of McGill’s involvement in the deal was allegedly heard to be introducing one man to another. There’s no suggestion he had acted illegally in relation to the matter.
The alleged plot was related to his job as manager at Aristotle restaurant in Sydney’s Neutral Bay which was owned by his partner, Maria O’Meagher. There is no suggestion Ms O’Meagher had acted illegally.
The diner closed down in the wake of the alleged incident and McGill was later working at Ploos restaurant in The Rocks, although he has now said to have left that job too.
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