Mark ‘Bomber’ Thompson’s drug trafficking charges dismissed

AFL legend Mark “Bomber” Thompson has been cleared of drug trafficking charges, after previously admitting to smoking ice.

Mark "Bomber" Thompson has had drug trafficking charges dismissed by a Melbourne magistrate. Picture: Julian Smith

Mark “Bomber” Thompson has been cleared of drug trafficking charges, but found guilty of possession charges.

The 55-year-old former Essendon captain and Geelong coach is charged with seven trafficking and possession offences after a raid on his Port Melbourne home last year.

He today faced a Melbourne court, but had a trafficking charge dismissed by Magistrate Duncan Reynolds.

Thompson had previously admitted to smoking ice in 2017 to cope with the fallout from the Essendon supplements saga.

He said everything he believed about AFL was left in ruins when he and three others, as well as the club, were charged in 2013 by the league with bringing the game into disrepute.

“I’m a drug taker and I’m sad that I’m a drug taker … I took drugs back then to mask all the pain,” Thompson told Melbourne Magistrates Court in June.

Nearly 500 MDA tablets, Xanax, ice, an LSD tab and equipment including scales were found in the raid on Thompson’s home in January 2018.

But the fallen AFL star’s legal team argued it made no sense for a man of Thompson’s profile to traffic drugs.

Thompson is expected back in the Melbourne Magistrates Court on Thursday.

—With AAP