The Olympic medallist and father-of-two appeared with his wife, publicist Sara Hill, in Sydney’s Waverley Local Court. The pair was given six-month good behaviour bonds with Magistrate Clare Farnan saying it was “disturbing” that a community role model “should choose to behave in this way”.
“I deal day in, day out, with young people who I lecture about the choices you make,” she said.
“It’s a very sad thing to see people like you before the court.”
It is a fall from grace for the champion butterfly swimmer nicknamed Skippy who, after retiring in 2004 made a tremendous comeback in 2010, shedding 40 kilograms and winning two gold medals at the 2010 Commonwealth Games.
Huegill and his wife were caught with cocaine while attending the Schweppervesence Stakes in an exclusive suite at Sydney’s Randwick racecourselast month. A security guard spotted Huegill placing something in his jacket pocket after emerging from a disabled toilet with his wife and alerted police.
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Huegill, 35, admitted that he had a bag of cocaine in his wallet and Hill, 30, also admitted she had a bag of cocaine in her handbag. There was less than one gram of the drug in each bag.
The couple’s lawyer, Dean Woodbury, told the court that the pair were polite and co-operative with police and Hill willingly approached officers and admitted she had cocaine on her.
“She had an opportunity to dispose [the drugs] but she didn’t,” he said.
