Masseuse caught with medicine after leaving Andrew O’Keefe’s home is fined

A masseuse busted with a cache of unlawful medicine after leaving embattled TV star Andrew O’Keefe’s home has been fined $1,000. 

Mitchell Rees Sturt, 52, was stopped by officers moments after exiting the previous Deal or No Deal host’s Vaucluse dwelling in Sydney‘s jap suburbs in the course of the early hours of November 24.

He was arrested after police searched a silver Mercedes Benz and located a black bag crammed with a cocktail of medicine, together with methylamphetamine, hashish, GHB, cocaine and LSD. O’Keefe was not charged in relation to the incident. 

Sporting a medical shoe, the remedial therapeutic massage therapist confronted Downing Centre Native Courtroom on Friday after pleading responsible to 5 counts of drug possession.

Sturt’s lawyer Sam Abbas admitted his shopper ‘had management over the bag’ and was conscious of its contents, however stated he solely deliberate on possessing the medicine ‘for a restricted time’, The Daily Telegraph studies. 

Mitchell Rees Sturt, 52, (pictured) has been fined $1000 after admitting to possessing a cocktail of medicine which had been discovered inside a Mercedes Benz final November

Sturt was arrested shortly after leaving troubled TV star Andrew O’Keefe’s (pictured) dwelling in Vaucluse round 1:40am on November 24

In line with police information, officers noticed Sturt and a feminine leaving the residence on Previous South Head Rd round 1:40am earlier than strolling in direction of a automotive parked on close by Belah Ave.

After noticing the police automotive, the pair ran away – however they had been later discovered by the officers who searched them together with the Mercedes Benz. 

Sturt advised the officer’s the whole lot contained in the automotive was his apart from objects on the again seat – which included the black bag.

The bag was discovered to comprise a transparent smoking pipe, set of scales, and two silver tins – one containing 12.6g of methylamphetamine and the opposite a bag of cocaine and three LSD tabs.

There was additionally two metallic flasks, a transparent resealable bag with a big crystalline shard, and an orange container which contained GHB and a cannabis-liquid-filled e-cigarette. 

 Sturt, from Abbotsford in Sydney’s internal west, is pictured enjoying cricket 

The tv presenter was the face of a number of iconic hit Channel Seven exhibits – together with Deal or No Deal and The Chase Australia

Sturt was arrested and brought to Waverley police station the place he advised officers the objects didn’t belong to him. He refused to reply all different questions. 

Mr Abbas advised the courtroom Sturt, who’s within the technique of making use of for a carer’s pension as he takes care of his mom, was a remedial therapist till Covid impacted his enterprise.

He added that the offences had been a ‘monumental blemish’ on Sturt’s life. 

Deputy chief Justice of the Peace Theo Tsavdaridis agreed Sturt was unlikely to commit additional offences and ‘does not belong on this jurisdiction’.

Accepting that Sturt’s interplay with the medicine was ‘fleeting’, Mr Tsavdaridis issued him with a effective and positioned him on an 18-month neighborhood corrections order.