Former Olympic swimmer Scott Miller has said helium was introduced to drugs done his narration with his ex-wife Charlotte Dawson before spiralling into addiction and landing successful jail.
Miller, 49, was sentenced successful Sydney's Downing Centre District Court connected Friday for moving an crystal proviso ringing successful 2020 successful Sydney's interior westbound wherever the drugs were hidden successful instant noodle containers.
The metallic medalist had pleaded blameworthy to supplying a ample commercialized quantity of drugs and directing a transgression group.
He was sentenced to 4 years and fixed a non-parole play of 1 year.
With clip already served, Miller could beryllium a escaped antheral by adjacent Wednesday.
During Friday's tribunal appearance, Miller submitted an affidavit claiming his courtship and 1999 matrimony to the precocious glamorous TV big and socialite Dawson enactment him connected a acheronian path.
Dawson took her ain beingness successful 2014, a time aft Miller turned 39.
Former Olympic swimmer Scott Miller has said helium was introduced to drugs done his narration with his ex-wife Charlotte Dawson earlier spiralling into addiction and landing successful jail
'Charlotte was engaged successful the manner and media manufacture and it was successful the discourse of my vulnerability to the manner that my wife's societal and employment connections afforded that I was archetypal introduced to idiosyncratic cause use,' Miller wrote, the Daily Telegraph reported.
'Whilst it was not important I realise successful retrospect that it was (the) commencement connected my agelong and disastrous engagement with cause abuse.'
The matrimony betwixt Dawson and Miller, who as a butterfly swimmer won a metallic and bronze medal astatine the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, didn't past agelong and ended aft a fewer years.
Miller blamed his caller manner for missing enactment for the Sydney 2000 Olympics.
'This nonaccomplishment … was besides a origin successful the deterioration of my marriage, which ended aft 3 oregon 4 years,' helium said successful the tribunal document.
He besides said the isolation and separation from his household portion grooming added to his intelligence anguish.
Miller's lawyer Greg Goold told the tribunal a psychiatric appraisal recovered that helium suffered from slump communal to elite athletes erstwhile they tin nary longer vie astatine the highest level.
Miller won a metallic medal successful the 100m butterfly astatine the 1996 Atlanta Olympics but helium felt crushed by coming second
The matrimony betwixt Dawson and Miller, who arsenic a butterfly swimmer won a metallic and bronze medal astatine the 1996 Atlanta Olympics , didn't past agelong and ended aft a fewer years
'Pursuing glory for his state came astatine an disbursal of everything other successful his life,' the tribunal heard.
When Miller finished 2nd to Russian Denis Pankratov for the 100m butterfly last astatine the 1996 Olympics, it had a superior intelligence effect connected him.
These benignant of stresses caused Miller to crook to drugs, which has resulted successful a fig of arrests and imprisonments.
Miller is presently serving a maximum jailhouse word of 5 years and six months having already plead blameworthy to charges associated with supplying drugs related to the aforesaid proviso ring.
The one-year non-parole play of his latest condemnation is acceptable to elapse connected May 15 and due to the fact that of clip already served, helium volition beryllium eligible for merchandise little than a week aft his latest conviction.
Miller is seen being arrested by constabulary successful February, 2021
The latest condemnation was implicit Miller supplying 504g of crystal from a Haberfield spot successful Sydney's interior westbound betwixt April and October successful 2020.
Judge Andrew Scotting said he believed the slump and anxiousness connected to his swimming vocation had contributed to the Olympian's offences.
He added that helium believed Miller had shown bully prospects of rehabilitation having abstained from drugs and completed a grade successful gathering and operation astatine Curtin University and adjacent scoring precocious distinctions each portion down bars.
Corrective Services told the tribunal Miller had been a exemplary prisoner.
'I judge that the constituent has been reached that nary further rehabilitation volition beryllium gained by keeping him successful jail,' Judge Scotting told the court.
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